Eleven Aymara indigenous women,ages 42 to 50, who worked as porters and cooks for mountaineers, and set on crampons – spikes fixed to a boot for climbing – under their wide traditional skirts and started to do their own climbing. These women gain now scaled five peaks: Acotango,Parinacota, Pomarapi and Huayna Potosí as well as Illimani, or the highest of all,in the Cordillera Real range. All are higher than 19,500ft (6000 meters) above sea levelBolivias cholita climbers scale highest mountain yet: ‘I cried with emotion’Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com