Newly minted world record breaker Kristin Harila is done with 8,000 metre peaks – ready for a “normal life” after achieving her goal of giving women a rare role model in extreme mountaineering.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 [INAUDIBLE]
00:12 Now we're going up to camp two.
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00:17 I think if women is going--
00:25 girls are going to choose to do this,
00:27 they need to have some role models
00:28 and they need to see it's possible.
00:30 And they also need to see it's possible for a woman
00:33 to earn money on this.
00:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:38 In the history and until now, it's
00:42 been like the strong macho men going out climbing mountains.
00:47 And I can see it now.
00:48 And when I talk to people that are not in this sport,
00:52 they believe that men are more capable than women are.
00:57 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:26 I want to use the project to make it easier for girls
01:32 after me to get sponsorship, to make
01:37 the producer of the climbing clothes
01:40 to actually produce clothes for women.
01:45 Yeah, and that we get the same respect as men do.
01:53 And if you go and look at the history,
01:54 it's been all about men.
01:56 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:59 All the way from Norway.
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02:04 I'm ready to go home.
02:07 And it's been maybe the hardest thing
02:10 has been to be away so much from my family
02:12 and missing Christmas and birthdays
02:16 and all these holidays we had.
02:19 And my grandmother died and I couldn't be there.
02:21 And so it's been hard to be away from home so much time.
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