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Why women-only adventure travel is surging - Denver Post
It was August 2017, and Sonya Pevzner stood on a small ledge, halfway up Washington’s imposing Mount Shuksan. With eight hours of climbing in the rearview mirror, only a single belay pitch stood between her and solid ground. Nervous jitters coursed through her body, leftovers from the stressful rappelling. But she felt something else, too: elation.
She glanced around the ledge and saw a handful of women — no men — packed together to accommodate each other in the cramped space. They came from different backgrounds and different parts of the country, and each had her own reason for being perched thousands of feet up the face of a mountain. But none of that mattered. They were in this together.
It was August 2017, and Sonya Pevzner stood on a small ledge, halfway up Washington’s imposing Mount Shuksan. With eight hours of climbing in the rearview mirror, only a single belay pitch stood between her and solid ground. Nervous jitters coursed through her body, leftovers from the stressful rappelling. But she felt something else, too: elation.
She glanced around the ledge and saw a handful of women — no men — packed together to accommodate each other in the cramped space. They came from different backgrounds and different parts of the country, and each had her own reason for being perched thousands of feet up the face of a mountain. But none of that mattered. They were in this together.