By completing that summit, he now owns the fastest time for the combined with and without oxygen climbs of 14 peaks. That ...

Jean-Christophe Lafaille is the first mountaineer to attempt the solo ascent of the steep Himalayan face of "Shishapangma ... long-held dream by reaching the summit by the magnificent British ...

and Shishapangma (8,012m). Climbing to the summit of all 14 eight-thousanders is regarded as a huge mountaineering challenge ...