Less than 20 women in the world have climbed Earth’s seven highest peaks. Lei Wang is an American citizen now living in Boston but born in China who is currently training for a 2010 expedition to Mt. Everest. If she successfully summits Everest, she’ll become the first Asian-American woman who has until now climbed six of the seven summits (Kilimanjaro, Denali, Elbrus, Aconcagua, Carstensz Pyramid, Vinson and Everest) and skied to both North Pole and South Pole. Once Lei has climbed Everest, she’ll be one of only 10 people to have completed what’s referred to as the “7 + 2” (Seven Summits and the Two Poles). She hopes that her example will especially inspire Chinese People, American immigrants and women around the world to challenge themselves to do something they once considered impossible.Tvi - Tvi - Good - Luck - Lei.

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If I should choose one activity from my own book of dreams, I would probably choose to reach K2 from the sky. I did try tandem paragliding in Bergen once on my 30th birthday, and I just loved it.  I was actually scared how much I did love the feeling of freedom and the absence of earthly contents. I think that I’m a creature of the wind. Anyways, for just $3495 you can actually have an real adventure in the sky these days. The price includes jump training, HALO tandem jump, use of flight suit, video of adventure, digital photos and certificate of completion. You are jumping out of the plane on 30 000 feet which is 1000 feet higher than Mt. Everest. You are jumping high and opening low (HALO - high altitude low opening). In 2008 a group of individuals, the daredevils jumped and delivered high-altitude skydive over Mt. Everest, and in the June of 2009 they will be in Alaska to deliver the first-ever high-altitude skydive over Mt McKinley, the highest peak in North America. British skydiver Holly Budge paid $24 000 and became first woman ever to freefall above Mt. Everest. So, as far as I can understand you can be a part of this “skydive over Mt. McKinley” - adventure for only $25 000 and become ‘what ever first’ on Mt. McKinley. I wonder if there are still adventures one can have without money?

I really believe in Bob’s quote ‘my feet is my only carriage’. If I asked Reinhold Messner about mountaineering gear, he would probably answered: tent, poles, ice axe, some food, feet and huge will to summit. He was the first man to solo Mt. Everest without oxygen, and the first to summit all fourteen Himalayan peaks higher than 8000 metres. He lost his seven toes and his brother Gunhter descending Nanga Parbat in 1970. I heard about this weirdo and his lifestyle just few months ago. Weird that no one told me about him earlier. He is just as much extraordinary as Lars Monsen or Arne Næss. I started to read Messner’s book ‘The Crystal Horizon’ yesterday, and today I feel like climbing ‘never rest’ in 2013. I sat in Calabria earlier today, and when G. came back from Spartacus , I said to him that I am climbing first Chimborazo and Ama Dablam , and then I’ll be ready to visit Himalaya, Tibet and Shekar Monastery. Anyway, Messner has an exceptional literary voice especially when he is writing about restlessness and oneness in our mad - materialistic world. ‘The crystal horizon’ needs to be read.