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Pioneering Gay Climber Silvia Vasquez-Lavado on Hiking as Healing

Well, why don’t I go and take my girl to a little mountain, walk to a mountain?”But Vasquez-Lavado didn’t want to settle for a little mountain, instead she thought, “If I have to take this huge pain, let me walk to the tallest mountain in the world.” It was very logical, she insists. “I’m like, The base camp of Everest.
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reports Gay Selena Gomez cast as gay mountaineering icon Silvia Vásquez-Lavado in new biopic
Selena Gomez has signed up to star as mountaineer Silvia Vásquez-Lavado in a new biopic.The singer will play the Peruvian in In the Shadow of the Mountain, which is based off an upcoming memoir by the mountaineer, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Vásquez-Lavado became the first Peruvian woman to hit the summit of Mount Everest, as well as the first openly gay woman to complete the Seven Summits – a challenge to climb the summits of the tallest mountains on each continent.Elgin James (Mayans MC) will write and direct the movie, with Scott Budnick (Just Mercy) and Oscar-winner Donna Gigliotti (Shakespeare in Love) producing.Vásquez-Lavado’s story has also been heralded as the mountaineer found healing in climbing after being the victim of
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