Highs, lows and disbelief

August 2015

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"By the time I got to Everest i still didn't absolutely know I could get to the top, but I was obsessed by curiosity."
Lydia Bradey was involved in one of New Zealand mountaineering’s most famous controversies. Matthew Pike speaks to the woman at the centre of it all One would expect the best days of Lydia Bradey’s life to have been those proceeding her success at becoming the first woman to have climbed Everest without supplementary oxygen. They […]
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