Nives Meroi

Nives Meroi (born 17 September 1961 at Bonate Sotto, Italy) is an Italian mountaineer. As of 2017, she had climbed to the summit of all fourteen eight thousanders, utilizing the alpine style of climbing.[1] [2][3]

Nives Meroi, Rome, 2010

Since 1989 Meroi has been married to Romano Benet, a climber and her partner in Himalayan mountaineering. All of Nives's and Romano's 8,000 m climbs have been completed without supplementary oxygen and without sherpas.[4]

Meroi and Benet live in Tarvisio in the Alps in northern Italy.

Chronology of her expeditions

References

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