Bolivia’s cholita climbersFor years Lydia Huayllas, 48, has worked as a cook at base camps
Bolivia’s cholita climbersFor years Lydia Huayllas, 48, has worked as a cook at base camps and mountain climbing refuges on the steep, glacial slopes of Huayna Potosi, a 6,088 meter (19,974-foot) Andean peak outside La Paz, Bolivia.But two years ago, she and 10 other Aymara indigenous women, ages 42 to 50, who also worked as porters and cooks for mountaineers, put on crampons under their wide traditional skirts and started to do their own climbing.Photographer David Mercado follows Bolivia’s cholita climbers: http://reut.rs/1YILbhC -- source link
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