Romanian 13yo alpinist Dor Geta Popescu sets new world record after climbing the highest volcano in the Pacific

13-year-old alpinist Dor Geta Popescu set a new world record after climbing the Giluwe Peak, the highest volcano in the Pacific Ocean, at 4,367 metres altitude.

The teenager has already set various world records for her age. She wants to be the first alpinist in the world who succeeds in ending the circuits Seven Volcanos and Seven Summits.
Dor Geta Popescu reached the Giluwe Peak in Papua New Guinea on Monday at 09:20 local hour, thus becoming the youngest alpinist in the world who successfully ends the Giluwe Volcano ascent.

“It’s a unique mountain, totally different from what I have done so far. It was a route near the jungle where you make your way through the vegetation with the machete, avoiding a lot of lakes and reaching the secondary craters area, of the peaks dominated by the volcanic lava. Then you remotely notice the silhouettes of the two cliffy peaks. The last 400 metres follow, the most beautiful, most abrupt, rockiest and most challenging ones. The peak is fantastic: 360 degrees of mountains and plateaux, peaks of over 3,500 metres coming out of the jungle that is stretching up to the horizon. Yes, I know: Giluwe is a mostly wanted mountain!”, the girl posted on Facebook.

Dor Geta Popescu has set several world records for her age. So far she has managed to conquer six peaks of the Seven Volcanos circuit (the highest volcanoes on each continent) and escalated four in those seven highest mountains on each continent in the Seven Summits circuit.

The teenage girl actually wants to be the first female alpinist in the world who succeeds in ending the Seven Volcanos and Seven Summits circuits. So far, only eight men scored this performance. Dor Geta Popescu set her first world record when she was ten in August 2013, becoming the youngest female alpinist in the world who reached the Ararat Peak (5,137m). Until then, the record belonged to her older sister, Crina Coco Popescu, who managed to escalate this peak in 2007, when she was 12 years and a half.