MS ShmMS – I am going to climb Everest

June 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Just climbing Everest is insane but add in MS? Crazy!!!!

http://www.jsonline.com/features/health/45924582.html

Ten years after doctors presented Lori Schneider with a hellish warning to prepare for life in a wheelchair, she ascended to the place on Earth closest to heaven.

Schneider stepped to the summit of Mount Everest, in sunshine and bitter cold, on Saturday morning, and became the first woman with multiple sclerosis to reach the roof of the world. Standing at 29,035 feet, the 52-year-old adventurer unfurled a banner for World MS Day, and then called her father, in Janesville.

“She said, ‘I’m here Dad, I’m on the summit, I made it,’ ” Neal Schneider recounted. “She was very, very happy, as you can imagine.”