When mountaineer Lisa Thompson was diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago at age 44, she didn’t spend days cooped up in bed, and she didn’t dwell on all the things cancer might leave her unable to do.
“My first thought was not, well, I guess I can’t climb. It was, well, I’m going to find a way to do it and still be healthy and not compromise my treatment,” recalls Thompson. “I was really determined that cancer wasn’t going to steal that dream from me.”
That determination led Thompson to make a bold decision: after her treatment, she would summit Mount Everest. True to her word, she made it to the top a year later. Her inspiring journey was chronicled in Sports Illustrated's virtual reality documentaryCapturing Everest.
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