Starting to exercise - if they can do it, so can we

RNY on 12/22/14

Cholita Climbers - More than a dozen indigenous Bolivian women who, for years, have been supporting climbers as cooks and porters decided to see what this mountain climbing business was all about. Wearing their traditional Aymaran dresses, they began climbing to the high summits. So far they have climbed six peaks over 6,000 m and their goal is to climb two more, including Aconcagua (6,962 m). Read more and see a laugh-out-loud-with-joy video of these ladies climbing in their cumbersome clothes.

 

http://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/alpinism/bolivian-chol itas-climb-the-andes-to-conquer-emancipation.html?utm_source =Alpine+Club+of+Canada&utm_campaign=d258ab27f1-Newsnet_April _28_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f101f176b6-d258ab27f1-1 1582237&mc_cid=d258ab27f1&mc_eid=21fc130841

 

I am inspired. 

 

 

 

 

Sharon

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