Transplant recipient completes Yosemite ascent
Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 19:49
in Paleontology & Archaeology
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) -- A heart transplant survivor has added another first to her long string of mountaineering feats since getting a new heart 13 years ago - a dangerous 2 1/2-day climb up the sheer, 2,000-foot face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park's famed granite monolith....
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