‘I never wore trousers, and I never will’: A Bolivian woman’s fight against sexism in the mountains
Cecilia Llusco, one of Bolivia’s pioneering female indigenous mountain climbers, blends tradition with adventure, climbing in her colorful pollera skirt. She faces sexism but finds strength in the support of other cholitas escaladoras. Llusco dreams of scaling Mount Everest while highlighting climate change’s impact on Bolivia’s glaciers.