<p>Pasaban, 36, reached the top of the 8,091-metre mountain along with several other Spanish climbers at around 2 pm (1430 IST), a spokesman for her team told AFP.<br />She now has just the 8,027-metre Shisha Pangma to scale in her bid to be the first female to reach the summit of every mountain over 8,000 metres (26,247 feet).<br /><br />But her chief rival, South Korea's Oh Eun-Sun, is also on the slopes of Annapurna, which would be her 14th and last summit.<br /><br />Annapurna is particularly dangerous because it is both technically difficult and avalanche-prone, and it has a much higher death rate than Everest, the world's highest peak.<br />Pasaban had been defeated by Annapurna once before, in 2007 when she and her team turned back about 1,000 metres from the summit in bad weather.<br />She will travel to Tibet to attempt her scale of Shisha Pangma "over the coming days", her spokesman said.<br /><br />A third contender, Austria's Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, is to begin her ascent of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, next week.<br /><br />But she would still have to climb K2, the world's second highest peak situated on the Pakistan-China border and regarded as the most difficult and dangerous of the 14 'eight-thousanders', in order to claim the record.<br />Italy's Reinhold Messner became the first man to climb all 14 summits in 1986.<br />The 14 mountains are all located in the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges in Asia.</p>
<p>Pasaban, 36, reached the top of the 8,091-metre mountain along with several other Spanish climbers at around 2 pm (1430 IST), a spokesman for her team told AFP.<br />She now has just the 8,027-metre Shisha Pangma to scale in her bid to be the first female to reach the summit of every mountain over 8,000 metres (26,247 feet).<br /><br />But her chief rival, South Korea's Oh Eun-Sun, is also on the slopes of Annapurna, which would be her 14th and last summit.<br /><br />Annapurna is particularly dangerous because it is both technically difficult and avalanche-prone, and it has a much higher death rate than Everest, the world's highest peak.<br />Pasaban had been defeated by Annapurna once before, in 2007 when she and her team turned back about 1,000 metres from the summit in bad weather.<br />She will travel to Tibet to attempt her scale of Shisha Pangma "over the coming days", her spokesman said.<br /><br />A third contender, Austria's Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, is to begin her ascent of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, next week.<br /><br />But she would still have to climb K2, the world's second highest peak situated on the Pakistan-China border and regarded as the most difficult and dangerous of the 14 'eight-thousanders', in order to claim the record.<br />Italy's Reinhold Messner became the first man to climb all 14 summits in 1986.<br />The 14 mountains are all located in the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges in Asia.</p>