No Magic Helicopter: An Aging Amazon's Climb of Everest

At 50, Carol Masheter transformed her life's turmoil into a quest for mountaineering. "No Magic Helicopter" narrates her journey from grief to the peak of Everest at 61. Detailing her preparation, the arduous climb, and a perilous descent, Masheter's story is a testament to resilience. Presently, she is the world's second oldest woman to conquer Everest and survive.

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About the Author: Carol Masheter
Carol Masheter, known as the SilverFox to her friends, has been a research chemist, a university professor in the social sciences, and an epidemiologist in public health. Dr. Masheter has summited four of the Seven Summits: Mount Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, and Mount Kilimanjaro, as well as Cho Oyu and a dozen peaks in South America. When not mountaineering, Dr. Masheter lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, and engages in numerous outdoor activities with friends. She also enjoys yoga, meditation, the arts, talking with interested groups about her mountaineering experiences. She supports a foster daughter in India.
When the bottom fell out of Carol Masheter's life at age 50, she took up mountaineering to cope with her grief and anger. Little did she know that mountaineering would lead her to try Everest when she was 61 in 2008. "No Magic Helicopter: An Aging Amazon's Climb of Mount Everest" chronicles her preparation for the climb, the struggle to the summit, and the blind descent that nearly cost her life. Currently, Dr. Masheter is the second oldest woman in the world to summit Everest and return home alive.

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