FOXNews.com - Heart transplant recipient's efforts on Mt. Kenya, Africa's 2nd-highest peak, foiled by cold
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An American heart transplant recipient who climbs mountains to demonstrate the power of organ donation has been turned back by frigid weather and loose rocks while attempting to summit Africa's second-highest peak.
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Perkins, of Laguna Beach, California, had a heart transplant in 1995, after which she began climbing some of the world's most famous mountains. She was the first person to climb the Matterhorn, Mount Fuji and Mount Kilimanjaro — Africa's highest peak — with another person's heart beating in her chest.
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Perkins said part of the reason her team didn't make the Mt. Kenya summit last week was because they planned a one-day push to the top instead of a two-day effort. She also said that climate change had transformed their route up from a "once semi-predictable formation into an assortment of loose and unstable stones."
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