Gangaamaa Badamgarav was the first Mongolian to complete the 7 summits, in December 2016, and the first Mongolian on K2, in July 2018. A herder's daughter from Zavkhan who started climbing on Otgontenger in 1989, she is on a Mongolian stamp and a silver coin, wrote her memoir in 2021, and runs her own expedition company in Ulaanbaatar.

