Bolivia's daredevil female mountaineers

A group of indigenous women decided to toss their aprons for mountain-climbing gear

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DATE IMPORTED:April 21, 2016Aymara indigenous women practice descending on a glacier at the Huayna Potosi mountain, Bolivia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/David Mercado)Many of these women had for years worked as cooks or porters at the Huayna Potosi base camp, helping tourists climb the mountains they had only gazed upon from below. ")

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Lauren Hansen
Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.