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Vermont Women Climb Mountain to Move Past Breast Cancer
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Vermont Women Climb Mountain to Move Past Breast Cancer
Team of 28 Breast Cancer Survivors and Supporters Scale Mt. Shasta with the Breast Cancer Fund’s Climb Against the Odds
On Wednesday, June 24, Vermont residents Amy Legate McAbee, 34, of South Pomfret and Megan Shrestha, 27, of Burlington scaled Northern California’s 14,162-foot Mt. Shasta with the Breas
t Cancer Fund’s Climb Against the Odds expedition of breast cancer survivors and others affected by the disease. For both women, the six
months of rigorous training and yesterday’s mountain climb were part of a journey to move past their experiences with breast cancer and to support the Breast Cancer Fund’s work to eliminate the environmental causes of the disease. McAbee marks her second year of being a young breast cancer survivor, and Shrestha honored her mother, who died 10 years ago from breast cancer.
The 2009 Climb Against the Odds team is comprised of women and men ranging in age from 27 to 62, representing nine states: Arizona, California, Florida, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington. Seven of the 28 climbers are cancer survivors; others made the climb to honor family members and friends who have gone through disease.
The team began their ascent of Mt. Shasta on Tuesday afternoon, leaving from the trailhead for Hidden Valley base camp at 9,400 feet. The team departed base camp in rope te
ams of five to six people between 2 and 4 a.m. on Wednesday morning. By noon, 21 of the 28 climbers had reached the summit at 14,162 feet, and everyone had safely returned to base camp by 5 p.m. After a night of rest at base camp, they returned to the town of Mt. Shasta to celebrate with friends, family and the local community.
In addition to training and climbing, the team took part in extensive fundraising for prevention. This year’s Cli
mb Against the Odds raised over $450,000 for the Breast Cancer Fund.
“Climb Against the Odds participants have gone to great heights—literally and figuratively—to honor their own and their loved ones’ experiences with breast cancer, and to promote prevention,” said Jeanne Rizzo, R.N., president of the Breast Cancer Fund. “We are truly honored to have such extraordinary and passionate women and men committed to taking one step at a time to stop this disease before it starts.”
In the United States, a woman’s lifetime risk of developing breast cancer is an alarming 1 in 8, and no more than 1 in 10 women with breast cancer has a genetic history of the disease. Scientific evidence points to toxic chemicals and radiation as factors for the high rates of the disease. Founded in 1992, the Breast Cancer Fund is the leading national organization working to identify and eliminate the environmental and other preventable causes.
Climb Against the Odds 2009 was the Breast Cancer Fund’s 10th team of breast survivors and supporters to climb for prevention, and the sixth team to climb Mt. Shasta.
This climb will follow in the tradition of the Breast Cancer Fund’s past expeditions: Mt. Aconcagua, Argentina (1995); Mt. McKinley, Alaska (1998); Mt Fuji, Japan (2000), Mt. Rainier, Wash. (2005), and Mt. Shasta, Calif. (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008).
