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The first woman to summit K2 was Wanda Rutkiewicz on 23 June 1986. Wanda Rutkiewicz was a Polish mountain climber and was born on the 4th February 1943 but she sadly died on the 12th/13th May 1992 while climbing Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world.

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