Nives Meroi

Nives Meroi, Rome, 2010

Nives Meroi (born 17 September, 1961 at Bonate Sotto, Italy) is an Italian mountaineer. As of 2008, she had climbed to the summit of eleven of the fourteen eight thousanders, utilizing the alpine style of climbing.^[1]

Since 1989 Meroi has been married to Romano Benet, a climber and her partner in Himalayan mountaineering. In true alpine style, all of Nives's and Romano's 8,000 m climbs have been completed without supplementary oxygen and without sherpas. It has been said that "(...) their style of mountaineering belongs to another era."^[2]

Meroi and Benet live in Tarvisio in the Alps in northern Italy.

Chronology of her expeditions

• 2009 second failure on Annapurna and first on Kangchenjunga
• 2008 summit of Manaslu
• 2007 summit of Mount Everest, first summit success of an Italian woman without bottled oxygen
• 2006 summit of K2 (first Italian woman)
• 2006 summit of Dhaulagiri
• 2004 summit of Lhotse
• 2003 she is the first woman who succeeds in ascendending all three eight-thousanders of the Gasherbrum massif (Gasherbrum I, Gasherbrum II and Broad Peak) during one season, within 20 days.
• 1999 summit of Cho Oyu
• 1999 summit of Shisha Pangma
• 1998 first summit of the 8000s, Nanga Parbat
• 1996 first attempt on Mount Everest, missed
• 1994 on K2, she gained 8000 m

References

1. ^ "List with female climbers with more than 4 8000ers, www.8000ers.com". http://www.8000ers.com/cms/content/view/96/226/. 
2. ^ "Makalu Winter Expedition 2008". http://www.planetmountain.com/english/News/shownews.lasso?l=2&keyid=35982. 

External links

• Nives Meroi's website (in Italian)

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Name	Meroi, Nives
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Date of birth	September 17, 1961
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