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On top of the world: Youngest ever British woman scales Everest at 22...
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^
| May 17, 2010
Posted on 05/17/2010 8:24:05 PM PDT by Stoat
She had never climbed a mountain until last year.
But a 22-year-old graduate has become the youngest British woman to scale the world’s highest peak – despite having little experience of mountaineering and feeling like she was ‘going to die’ when she went for her first jog to get fit.
Bonita Norris reached the summit of Mount Everest early yesterday morning, after being inspired by survival expert Bear Grylls’s account of his own record-breaking climb at the age of 23.
She said she woke up one day determined to go through with the ‘crazy’ idea, ignoring her family’s warnings that it was ‘stupid’.
Miss Norris, from Wokingham, Berkshire, also had to fight an uphill battle with an eating disorder to get into peak condition for the 29,029ft climb.
But yesterday, the media arts graduate from Royal Holloway, University of London, posted on her blog that she had reached the summit and was ‘proud to be the new holder of a British record’.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bonitanorris; britain; england; everest; greatbritain; idmountit; notguilty; uk; unitedkingdom
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To: Chode
mile high club??? 5 mile high club. She must have a great set of lungs.
To: truthguy
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05/18/2010 4:06:55 AM PDT
by
GregB
(I will vote for Sarah Palin with MY COLD DEAD HANDS!!!!!!)
To: Stoat
Wonderful. Now let’s see her get up K2.
To: MarineBrat; pissant; posterchild; doubled; bk1000; mouser; llevrok; Red in Blue PA; MilspecRob; ...
Everest Hottie Ping!
To be on or off the Hottie Ping List please FReepmail me.
Preeshate the heads up Stoat.
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posted on
05/18/2010 6:38:59 AM PDT
by
numberonepal
(Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
To: Stoat
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posted on
05/18/2010 7:19:48 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: JRios1968
Almost too hot to be real!
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05/18/2010 7:20:36 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Support our troops....and vote out the RINOS!)
To: Stoat
Pretty hot. Though knowing what has happened to many many people who have climbed Everest, she’s lucky she still has lips and a nose. :) Kudos to her!
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posted on
05/18/2010 7:41:54 AM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: Stoat
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posted on
05/18/2010 8:51:07 AM PDT
by
llevrok
(A stranger in my own country)
To: Stoat
Story is incomplete: no mention of her twin sister when they tackled the two peaks of the Everest.
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posted on
05/18/2010 9:02:49 AM PDT
by
Moltke
(panem et circenses)
To: numberonepal
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05/18/2010 11:10:09 AM PDT
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Red in Blue PA
(Thinking of using 911 for protection? Google "Brittany Zimmerman")
To: Red in Blue PA
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05/18/2010 11:10:40 AM PDT
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Red in Blue PA
(Thinking of using 911 for protection? Google "Brittany Zimmerman")
To: Pearls Before Swine
it's prolly kill me... but i'd give it a shot
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05/18/2010 3:20:43 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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