A teenager has a “Blogspot” blog like mine. Here is her most recent post:
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Summit!
We made it to the top! Now all we have to do is get back down ...
Posted by Samantha Larson at 10:25 PM
With these words, transmitted via satellite telephone from atop Mount Everest, Samantha Larson, 18, marked a number of firsts:
* She is the youngest foreigner to scale the world’s tallest mountain.
* She is the youngest person to have climbed the highest points on all the continents.
* She and her father, a Long Beach, Calif., anesthesiologist, are believed to be the only father-and-daughter team to climb all seven summits.
Samantha, who has excelled in academics, in athletics, in dance and in music – in 2001 she played her oboe atop Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania - has chronicled her Everest conquest on her blog: LINK
Read The Los Angeles Times article about this remarkable young woman: LINK
And, I feel like I’ve accomplished something if I wash two loads of clothes in a given day!
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A warm welcome to the naturally curious, the politically engaged and constant learners. I am a retired newspaper editor with a fickle foe, retinitis pigmentosa, or RP. While my sense of sight is waning, my "vision" is not, and, by God, I can still see my dreams!
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1 comment:
Doing my wash is easier than it was for my Mama. Scrub boards were hard on the knuckles and buckles!
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