Gineth Soto has put on hold her dream of becoming the first Costa Rican to best the highest point on the planet, Mount Everest, which would have been the secondto-last peak on her Seven Summits mission.
The 5-foot-tall, 34-year-old Tica managed last Wednesday to reach Camp 3, at 7,100 meters (23,621 feet), and was just two days away from the 8,850-meter (29,029-foot) summit, but the temperatures plummeted, and she caught the infamous “Khumbu cough.”
