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Wholefoods Employee By Day, Mount Everest Climber By Night

Via The New York Times

Most climbers preparing to tackle Mount Everest have a rigorous training schedule, often having the entire day to dedicate to exercise, planning, and recovery. The lucky few have the financial power and backing behind them from well known sponsors to fund the entire expedition. But for Lhakpa Sherpa, who has summited Mount Everest 10 times which is the most for any woman, this isn?t her reality. She actually works at Wholefoods in a sleepy Connecticut town to pay the bills, keep a roof over her head, and to put money away for her daughter’s college education. And when she isn?t clocked in at the organic supermarket chain, she?s either training or away on an expedition to guide climbers with aspirations to summit the highest point on Earth. Lhakpa Sherpa?s story is filled with twists and turns, from cleaning people?s houses just to get by, to narrowly escaping death on more than one occasion in the mountains. It just seemed that she has never got the rec...