Girlpower: Youngest Danish girl to climb Everest

Emma's Everest: This is girlpower. My girlpower project.

I believe you know what it feels like to work your uttermost. Do you also know what true passion feels like? And maybe you then understand that drive and motivation to work your ass off in pursuing your passion and making your dreams come true.

I'm a Danish, 25-years-old woman, and I'm all-in on my girlpower project. Emma's Everest is my 3-year project. I want to inspire, I want to motivate, and I want to show how strong women are.

When I climb, I'm radiant, thrilled, and I feel the passion as pure happiness in my body. I feel it tickling in my legs, my arms, and my belly. I feel strong, confident, and meaningful. I love this feeling. And this is what I call girlpower, and you can feel it too.

I’m devoted to and in awe of the mountains as ever.

In May 2023, I will make a reality of my dream: climbing Mount Everest.

When summiting the world's highest mountain, I will make new Danish history by doing it as the youngest Danish woman.

Emma's Everest is a unique project, and my collaboration with Denmark's most successful mountaineer and guide, Jakob Urth, makes Emma's Everest powerful and professional.

During my 3-year project, I will climb a wide range of mountains together with Jakob, as each climb will contribute to and prepare me for Everest. Thus, the project's setup is a step-by-step process, where I'm climbing 7 different peaks (including Mount Everest).

*Find the steps at the bottom.

Emma's Everest is more than mountain climbing. It's an inclusive girlpower project, which is just that extra.

Through my girlpower project, I have built up mental strength. A pride. A belief in 'me'. And more importantly, invaluable, fantastic learning which I use in all facets of life.

Reinforcing, and extremely motivating, is the 'inspiration role', which I have achieved through the project. A role where I am allowed to pass on and nurture other people's motivation, and self-belief, and that you should (can and must) pursue your dreams.

The joy of passing on inspiration and motivation is a clear driving force for me. But I'm absolutely stoked to experience the response, I receive, from the people I reach out to in my network. The people who follow my project and who accept my energy to go on with it themselves.

Emma's Everest has become a project that now influences others to dare to take the next step towards their dream. Dare to believe in yourself and create the framework and opportunities that can make the dream come true, rather than letting it remain an illusion.

Inclusive power initiatives.

With hard work, determination, passion and the right set-up, the project shows that dreams can come true, as well as how hard work and large costs also become part of the project.

As part of my project, I hold a free, joint training every month. Anyone who wants to share the experience and joy of training is invited. It is not decisive what physical shape you are in or how long you join. It's about the joint training acting as the little motivation that gets you going.

In addition, I run girlpower trips for women only, amongst others to Norway, Africa's roof, Kilimanjaro, or South America's highest peak, Aconcagua. My girlpower trips are all about sharing motivation, learning, and having shared joy.

I hope you will follow my girlpower project and my +8.000 m. climb coming up.

I need all the support I can get to make this final step and my dream come true.

Find me on Instagram: emma_oestergaard or via the link https://www.instagram.com/emma_oestergaard/?hl=da

You can also read much more about Emma's Everest on my website www.emmaseverest.dk

A million thanks for your support!

My project's mountain journey is listed below:

1. Alpine- and technical climbing in the French Alps. Climbing smaller peaks, 2021.

2. Physical training and rock climbing in Norway, 2021.

3. Alpine climbing and heights in Nepal. Climbed 2x +6.000 m. & 2x +5.000 m. peaks, 2021.

4. Expedition, mental- and physical training by climbing Aconcagua, Argentina, 2022.

5. Alpine- and technical climbing & rock climbing in the French Alps. Climbed Mont Blanc via the Three Mounts Traverse Route as well as 3x +4.000 m. peaks, 2022.

6. Final climb before Mount Everest, where I will be climbing the world's 8. highest mountain, Mt. Manaslu (8.163 m.). This will be to test everything I have learned, develop my experience even further, and be able to optimise better for Everest.

7. (Final and making dreams come true) In spring 2023 I will be back in Nepal. This time for finalising my project and making my dream come true. No more talking. Now it's on, and I'm all in. Climbing Mount Everest is my biggest achievement. This is girlpower.