Adriana Brownlee said she quit university to pursue mountaineering and is now a record-breaker.
Adriana Brownlee said she quit university to become a mountaineer, and is now the youngest woman to scale the world's 14 peaks over 8,000m
"I quit university and my degree to pursue a career in mountaineering and sacrificed friendships, regular teenage life and more, but it was all worth it," the 23-year-old Londoner explained.Adriana said: "You can create your own destiny and journey which can be totally unique to you if that’s what makes you happy"
"I hadn’t reached the summit yet, I couldn’t even see it, but I knew it was going to happen," she said."By this time it was just sunrise and we had a beautiful clear sky.Adriana also becomes the second British to climber to do so, adding: "British explorers have always been breaking boundaries.
She became the youngest woman in the world to summit K2, and the youngest person to summit Gasherbrum 1 without supplementary oxygen. "It’s all about intrinsic motivation for me and wanting to push my body and achieve my personal goals," she said.
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