From Servants to Everest

Milan Sime Martinic
4 min readAug 20, 2020

The inspiring story of the Bolivian Cholita Mountain Climbers Continues to Rack-up Awards and Propel the Protagonists to Greater Heights

BY MILAN SIME MARTINIC

Their black hair parted at the nape of their neck falls into the two traditional long braids delicately adorning their weathered faces. From the distance, you can see the billowing hips from their layered and colorful…

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Milan Sime Martinic

Journalist, writer, researcher, and analyst; author of the upcoming book on the COVID-19 crisis, ‘PANDEMIC — And The Music Stopped’. On Twitter @MilanSimeMrtnc.