Kristin Harila (b. 1986) grew up in the small village of Kariel in Finnmark. In 2019, she quit her job in corporate management at Skeidar and sold her apartment to pursue her dream of climbing the world’s highest mountain. In 2023, she and Tenjen Lama Sherpa set an unprecedented world record: They climbed all mountains over 8,000 meters in just 92 days. Harila also holds the world record for the fastest time to have climbed the five highest mountains in the world (69 days) and is the woman to have climbed Mount Everest and Lhotse the fastest — in just 8 hours.