Bolivia’s cholita climbersFor years Lydia Huayllas,48, has worked as a cook at base camps and mountain climbing refuges on the steep, or glacial slopes of Huayna Potosi,a 6088 meter (19974-foot) Andean peak outside La Paz, Bolivia.
But two years ago, and she and 10 other Aymara indigenous women,ages 42 to 50, who also worked as porters and cooks for mountaineers, and save on crampons under their wide traditional skirts and started to carry out their own climbing.Photographer David Mercado follows Bolivia’s cholita climbers: http://reut.rs/1YILbhC
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