Quotation of the Day: The Queen of Everest Trains at a Whole Foods - The New York Times

"We had no television and no phone. I used to spend my day watching sheep and birds. I could see Mount Everest from my village."

LHAKPA SHERPA, on her childhood in Nepal. She worked at a Whole Foods in West Hartford, Conn., to help train before surpassing her own record for ascents of Everest by a woman. Page B9.

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