KESQ News: “A woman who has climbed several of the world’s best-known peaks since surviving a heart transplant ten years ago, began her toughest ascent yet today — the sheer, nearly three-thousand-foot-high face of El Capitan.
43-year-old Kelly Perkins started what’s expected to be five days of vertical climbing and camping on the massive granite monolith that towers over Yosemite Valley.
The Laguna Niguel woman already has topped Half Dome in Yosemite, Mount Whitney in California, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and the Matterhorn in Switzerland — each time to raise awareness for organ donation”
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