Araceli Segarra

Araceli Segarra (born March 1970 in Lleida, Spain) is the first Spanish woman to have climbed Mount Everest and the Seven Summits.^[1] She has also climbed Broad Peak (1991) Shishapangma (1992), K2 (2002), Kanchenjunga (2005) and Nanga Parbat (2008).^[2]

Araceli Segarra

Education and personal interests

Segarra has a degree in Physiotherapy. She became interested in mountain sports at age 15 when taking a spelunking course; she also enjoys randonee skiing, rock climbing, and ice climbing.

Career

In 1996, while being filmed for the IMAX documentary, EVEREST (1998), she participated on the rescue team during the May 1996 Mount Everest disaster and is credited with the idea of marking a rescue helicopter landing location with an "X" made of red Kool-Aid.^[3]

In addition to her climbing career, she has written and illustrated several children's books, like "Los Viajes de Tina".

Mountains climbed

• Mount Kosciuszko (1987)
• Kilimanjaro (1987)
• Mount Elbrus (1988)
• Aconcagua (1988)
• Mont Blanc (1989)
• Denali (1990)
• Broad Peak (1991)
• Shishapangma (1992)
• Puncak Jaya (1994)
• Mount Everest (1996)
• Vinson Massif (1999)
• K2 (2002)
• Kanchenjunga (2005)
• Nanga Parbat (2008)

See also

• List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest