The Most Famous
MOUNTAINEERS from South Korea
This page contains a list of the greatest South Korean Mountaineers. The pantheon dataset contains 45 Mountaineers, 1 of which were born in South Korea. This makes South Korea the birth place of the 16th most number of Mountaineers behind Lithuania and Malaysia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South Korean Mountaineers of all time. This list of famous South Korean Mountaineers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Oh Eun-sun (1966 - )
With an HPI of 43.38, Oh Eun-sun is the most famous South Korean Mountaineer. Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Oh Eun-sun (Korean: 오은선; Hanja: 吳銀善, born March 5, 1966) is a South Korean mountaineer. She was the first Korean woman to climb the Seven Summits. On April 27, 2010, she reached the summit of Annapurna; upon doing so, she claimed to have climbed all fourteen eight-thousanders, which would have made her the first woman to achieve this feat. However, her claim to have ascended Kangchenjunga was disputed by multiple experts. Oh later admitted that she had stopped a few hundred meters before the summit of Kangchenjunga, and so the Korean Alpine Federation ruled that she had not summited. The mountaineering site ExplorersWeb considers Edurne Pasaban as the first woman to have successfully climbed all fourteen peaks.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as mountaineers born between 1966 and 1966. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living mountaineers include Oh Eun-sun.
