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.
Perfect. Let me do that! It was the start of that journey.”Vasquez-Lavado describes her earlier life as a “struggling experience.” But then she climbed the mountain Kala Patthar at Everest’s base and saw the sunrise over the imposing vistas.“I simply said, ‘Everest, you’ve given me my life back.
You’re opening something that I’ve never felt before,’” Vasquez-Lavado says. Then she made a vow.She began to take on the Seven.