[Photo] Giulio Malfer

Kitty Calhoun

Posted on: June 1, 2005

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Climbing any route on an 8000er deserves a tip o' the hat, but Makalu's West Pillar merits a full bow from the waist. Kitty Calhoun was the first woman to climb it; in the years since, she hasn't exactly been resting on her laurels.

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