And if you ski down one 8,000 meter mountain, why not try a few more? Fredrik Ericsson, a Swedish “ski-adventurer” recently made it to the base camp at K2, beginning an epic project to be the first person to ski the world’s three highest mountains: Mount Everest, K2 and Kangchenjunga. With an ultimate goal to ski all 14 of the world´s 8,000 meter peaks.

His project continues in fall 2009, when he plans to ski down Kangchenjunga (8586m) and then Mount Everest (8850m) the following year. Previous ski descents he has under his belt are Peak Somoni, Shisha Pangma, Gasherbrum 2, Laila Peak and Dhaulagiri

K2 has been dubbed “The Savage Mountain” due to it´s extremely high death rate: for every four people who have reached the summit, one has died trying. The mountain has been climbed on 10 different routes and only around 200 people have summited. So far no one has made a complete ski descent from the summit of K2. We are excited to see Eric become the first!

His ski descent of K2 is the highlight of a two-month expedition and is expected to take about five hours with a vertical drop of almost 3600 meters.

Follow his progress on this ambitious adventure at Fredrik Ericsson´s Website

Check out a video of his Dhaulagiri Expedition in 2007