Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
The village of Shimshal is nestled high in the Himalayas.
It's one of the fifteen highest locations in the world, and one of the places to go if you want to climb to the summit of Mount Everest. Getting there means navigating a very thin road precariously carved into the side of a mountain.
Samina Baig was born and raised in Shimshal. At the age of 22, with the encouragement of her brother Mirza Ali, she became the first Pakistani woman to reach the summit of Everest. That despite the fact that women raised in proximity of Everest rarely ever make the attempt to climb the peak.
Now, her story is the subject of a documentary film called "Beyond the Heights," directed by Jawad Sharif and produced by her brother Mirza:
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