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No Mountain Too High: The Climbs of Betsy Cowles Partridge

Posted on November 28, 2018 by ahcadmin

Three years before Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Nargay made their famous ascent of Mount Everest in 1953[1], Elizabeth “Betsy” Cowles Partridge, an intrepid woman from Colorado Springs, Colorado, was part of an American Expedition exploring a route to conquer … Continue reading →

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