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How I Made It: A Latina Mountaineer Conquers The Highest Peaks

NPR
Published February 11, 2020 at 1:42 PM PST

In 2018, Mountaineer Silvia Vásquez-Lavado successfully completed the seven summits challenge—by climbing the largest mountain on each continent. In this story, she shares what it was like.

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