Edita Horrell Explained

Edita Horrell
Birth Place:Lithuania
Occupation:Mountaineer, Aid worker

Edita Horrell (née Uksaitė), previously known as Edita Nichols, is a Lithuanian-born mountaineer and humanitarian aid worker. She became the first Lithuanian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on 22 May 2013.[1]

Biography

Edita Horrell is a humanitarian aid worker employed by the World Food Programme (WFP), whom she has worked for since 2010. She has been deployed to Haiti, Niger, the Philippines, South Sudan, Zambia, Guinea, Nepal, Ecuador, Chad and the Central African Republic.[2]

She began her career as a mountaineer following her ascent of Kilimanjaro in 2010. She has made successful ascents of three 8000m peaks - Cho Oyu, Manaslu and Everest. She survived an avalanche on Manaslu in 2012, when she was catapulted for several metres inside her tent.[3]

She made two unsuccessful attempts on a fourth 8000m peak, Lhotse, in 2014 and 2015. Both of these expeditions were cut short by major tragedies. In 2015 she narrowly avoided another avalanche at Everest Base Camp, when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake caused a serac to collapse on nearby Pumori. After the earthquake, she spent two months in Nepal working on the emergency response for the World Food Programme.[4] [5]

In 2014 she was part of an international team which measured and identified Mafinga Central as the highest point in Zambia.[6]

In 2016 she was mountaineering in Ecuador when another 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck. Once again she remained in the country to assist with the humanitarian response for WFP.[7]

In September 2017 she made what is believed to be the first ever ascent of Chimborazo from sea to summit, starting from Guayaquil, then completing a full circuit of the mountain before climbing to the summit.[8]

Successful climbs

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Everest 2013 Expedition Dispatches . Altitude Junkies website . 8 December 2015 .
  2. Web site: WFP Logistician Climbs Mount Everest . World Food Programme website . 8 December 2015 .
  3. Web site: Manaslu 2012 Expedition Dispatches . Altitude Junkies website . 8 December 2015 .
  4. Web site: Lhotse (8,516m) 2014 Closed . Edita Nichols – "Intotheblu's Blog" . 8 December 2015 .
  5. Web site: The day Everest came tumbling down . Edita Nichols – "Intotheblu's Blog". 8 December 2015 .
  6. Web site: Mafinga South and Mafinga Central: the highest peaks in Zambia. Footsteps on the Mountain blog . 8 December 2015.
  7. Web site: My Ecuador Volcano Adventure and Beyond . Edita Nichols – "Intotheblu's Blog". 26 August 2016 .
  8. Web site: Is this the world's first ascent of Chimborazo from sea to summit?. Footsteps on the Mountain blog . 27 February 2018.
  9. Web site: Edita Nichols – "Intotheblu's Blog" . Edita Nichols – "Intotheblu's Blog" . 8 December 2015 .
  10. Web site: Salt before breakfast: an ascent of Ojos del Salado . Footsteps on the Mountain blog . 22 June 2019.

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