Catherine Destivelle's first solo ascent of The Old Man of Hoy, Europe's tallest rock stack.

Rock Queen

On some peaks in 2003, the statistics are impressive. For the K2 dubbed "wild mountain" or "ruthless mountain", only 240 reached the summit and more than 60 perished in the ascent. An unimaginable rate of one death in four to survive. And these statistics are even worse At the start of the 2004 climbing season, only five talented and determined women had reached the 8,616-meter summit of K2, but only two made it out alive. , they too perished while climbing other peaks of 8000 meters, these five women all disappeared in the mountains. Women of K2 examines several areas of theory, speculation and discussion and asks controversial and challenging questions of women mountaineers as well as the medical and climbing communities. Deadly or not, every year brings new women climbers to K2, ready to test their strength and will against one of the deadliest mountains on Earth. Among them during the 2002 climbing season was Spanish climber and fashion model Araceli Segarra.