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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Donna Ferguson

How an epic climb lifted one woman out of life’s lowest point

‘I felt if I could get through the hardness of this challenge, I would be stronger – and I am’: Jessica Hepburn on training for Everest.
‘I felt if I could get through the hardness of this challenge, I would be stronger – and I am’: Jessica Hepburn on training for Everest Photograph: PR

It is hard for Jessica Hepburn to pinpoint the exact moment she decided to climb to the top of the world as well as to listen to every single available episode of Desert Island Discs.

“They’ve become so inextricably linked in my mind,” says the author, adventurer and self-described “unlikely athlete” who, in 2022, at the age of 51, successfully summited Mount Everest.

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