She climbed Everest without oxygen. But the summit was never the point

Inquirer.net - Oct 27, 2026

Melissa Arnot Reid first came to Nepal in 2008 as an assistant guide on an Everest expedition. She was 23 and had been guiding for only three years. She had arrived, by her own account, with “an incredible level of naivety.” Summitting Everest, she thought then, was “the master’s degree for a guide”, a way

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