perkins, kelly

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perkins, kelly

The climb of my life

scaling mountains with a borrowed heart
2007
The author tells the story of how, at age thirty, she learned she was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and needed a new heart; and shares how she not only survived the transplant, but became the first heart transplant recipient to climb some of the world's highest peaks.
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