FIRST WOMAN ON EVEREST

Rebecca Stephens was the first woman to climb Mount Everest. Before she went up the highest mountain in the world, she was a journalist and lived in a small flat in south London. She wanted to do something adventurous and exciting so decided to make changes in her life choices. She started by changing her career.In 1993, Rebecca quit her job and left her family to travel to Asia with some other climbers to climb Mount Everest. She found that life on Everest was hard. “You must carry everything on your back,” she explained, “so you can only take things that you will need. You can’t wash on the mountain, and in the end I didn’t even take a toothbrush. I am usually a clean person but there is no water, only snow. Water is very heavy so you only take enough to drink!” When Rebecca reached the top of Mount Everest on May 17, 1993, it was the best moment of her life. Suddenly she became famous. Recently she wrote a book about trip and people often ask her to talk about it. She has a new job too, on a science programme on television.

Rebecca is well known today and she has more money, but she still lives in the little flat in south London among her pictures and books about mountains!