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Identifier
F205-S30(23-15)-i2
Title
"She cooked breakfast - then beat a killer peak"
Creator
Esther Kafer ([1928]-)
Date(s)
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1962-08-09
Description
"In the dawn twilight I saw the peak of Mount Waddington rising steeply 13,000 feet into the sky and I knew before the day was over I'd be on top—or dead."
Esther Kafer was the first woman to reach the summit of BC's highest mountain in 1962. Despite her fears, having lost friends in an accident on the peak two years before, she reached the 4019-metre summit with husband Martin after almost nine hours of climbing from their final base camp. In this newspaper article, she talks through that final push for the summit.
Subjects
Types
- text
Format
Source
Fonds 205