Record-breaking mountaineer Kristin Harila hopes to inspire more girls

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Newly minted world record breaker Kristin Harila is done with 8,000 metre peaks – ready for a “normal life” after achieving her goal of giving women a rare role model in extreme mountaineering.

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:03 [INAUDIBLE]

00:12 Now we're going up to camp two.

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00:17 I think if women is going--

00:25 girls are going to choose to do this,

00:27 they need to have some role models

00:28 and they need to see it's possible.

00:30 And they also need to see it's possible for a woman

00:33 to earn money on this.

00:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:38 In the history and until now, it's

00:42 been like the strong macho men going out climbing mountains.

00:47 And I can see it now.

00:48 And when I talk to people that are not in this sport,

00:52 they believe that men are more capable than women are.

00:57 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:26 I want to use the project to make it easier for girls

01:32 after me to get sponsorship, to make

01:37 the producer of the climbing clothes

01:40 to actually produce clothes for women.

01:45 Yeah, and that we get the same respect as men do.

01:53 And if you go and look at the history,

01:54 it's been all about men.

01:56 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:59 All the way from Norway.

02:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

02:04 I'm ready to go home.

02:07 And it's been maybe the hardest thing

02:10 has been to be away so much from my family

02:12 and missing Christmas and birthdays

02:16 and all these holidays we had.

02:19 And my grandmother died and I couldn't be there.

02:21 And so it's been hard to be away from home so much time.

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