Ten Top Women Adventurers For International Women's Day - Who's Your Favorite?

Photograph by Ignacio Delgado

To celebrate International Women's Day today, we decided to look back at ten women adventurers recently featured on National Geographic Adventure. Topping our list is Spanish mountaineer Edurne Pasaban (pictured), who won our People's Choice Adventurer of the Year vote this year. In 2010, she completed a nine-year quest to climb the world's 14 8,000-meter peaks. This March, she will return to Everest to climb it without supplemental oxygen. If she is successful, she will be the first women to climb the 8,000-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen. Good luck, Edurne!

Mountaineer Edurne Pasaban - The Spaniard climbed the world's 14 8,000 meter peaks and won our 2011 People's Choice Adventurer of the Year vote. See the photos and video >>

Circumnavigator Jessica Watson - This Australian solo sailed around the world at just 16 years old, though her wisdom exceeds her age. Read the interview >> 

Rower Roz Savage - Savage has solo rowed across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Now she's attempting the Indian. Read the interview >>

Skier, Eco-Advocate Alison Gannett - This world champion skier now spends a great deal of her time speaking on behalf of the world's melting snow. See her favorite ski spots >> 

Surfer Anastasia Ashley - It's not easy to make your way in the male-dominated world of big-wave surfing. Read the interview >>

Freeskier Jenn Berg - This audacious skier has been featured in the last five Warren Miller movies. Enough said. See her favorite ski spots >>

Snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler - First noted as one of our Adventurers of the Year for her love of backcountry snowboarding, the Olympic silver medalist recently went on a South Africa trip with Oakley to fit perscription glasses on people in need. Read more >>

Musher, Snowkiter Sarah McNair-Landry - This up-and-coming arctic explorer is one of the best mushers and snowkiters we have ever known. Her next expedition will take her kite skiing across the Northwest Passage. Read more >>

Climber Steph Davis - Featured in our Ultimate Adventure Bucket List for her groundbreaking climbs in Yosemite, Steph is constantly surprising us with adventures—including this wingsuit flying video >>

Explorers' Club President Lorie Karnath - Lorie just accepted a second term as the president of the prestigious, male-dominated Explorers' Club. We will have an interview up with her next week. Until then, read her thoughts on space exploration >>

Who is your favorite woman adventurer? Post your comments below!

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First noted as one of our Adventurers of the Year for her love of backcountry snowboarding, the Olympic silver medalist recently went on a South Africa trip with Oakley

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Anastasia Ashley!

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Alison Gannett. She is as kind as she is fearless and extreme. She is as human as she is an athlete. She gets it. She knows there is more to sport and that sport and admirable accomplishments are the portal to bigger, deeper more universal questions that affect all of us- not just the athletes salivating for her grandure in the extremes of her sports success.

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Jessica Watson without a doubt....around the world by herself at such a young age...young girls need a role model their own age group these days....that young lady fits that description perfectly. All the others are good but this young girl is indeed great !!!

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Alison all the way. She's inspiring with how she's learning and pushing herself to lead a more sustainable life. She doesn't claim to know how to do everything, but takes the time to jump in with both feet and learn by submersion. What I like is that she's not judgemental and can make the often daunting task of trying to be more sustainable more manageable by offering easy steps we can all take.

[LouPhi versatile explorer]

In my opinion, the list is way too short and biased. There are so many more women out there who are doing incredible adventures and do not make the big international headlines. For biased: I don't consider skier, surfer, snowboarder... as adventurers. It's a sport, even if sometimes extreme, it's not adventure. But for sure all women on the list are surely great.