...that warm the heart or exemplify the spirit of climbing.

159 climbers scale Everest this season

159 climbers who ascend Everest...

A 2003 real life story about a young climber trapped without hope of rescue,

whose desire to live outweighed his fear of pain or loss.  He had to amputate his arm in

order to free himself from a rock he was pinned under.

Hiker tells how he amputated arm

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Central/05/02/climber.amputation.ap/

http://www.abqjournal.com/go/apclimb05-03-03.htm

http://www.meaning.ca/articles/news_commentary/ralston_may03.htm

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/Central/05/06/climber.amputation.ap/

A climber who would not let a heart transplant stop her from achieving her dreams. There is no mountain the human spirit cannot ascend when the heart is in it!

EXTREME ACHIEVEMENT

November 9, 2001. Six years after a heart transplant saved her life, Kelly Perkins braved cold, thin air to scale 19,340-foot-high Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa.