"I am not a woman who breaks easily. While I was still in the hospital I told myself [the doctors] were wrong, I will prove to them that I can even go to the top of the world."
By JERUSALEM POST STAFFUpdated: MAY 30, 2021 18:22Light illuminates Mount Everest (C) during sunset in Solukhumbu district, also known as the Everest region, in this picture taken November 30, 2015(photo credit: REUTERS/NAVESH CHITRAKAR/FILE PHOTO)
After years of intensive rehab following a skiing accident that doctors feared may leave her unable to walk, Danielle Wolfson became the first Israeli woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest last week.“I am not a woman who breaks easily,” Wolfson wrote in a Facebook post. “While I was still in the hospital, I told myself [the doctors] were wrong, I will prove to them that I can even go to the top of the world. Since that day, my aim has been focused and clear – I will step on the summit of Everest.”After her injury, Wolfson spent the years running, swimming and biking to train for the assault on the world’s tallest peak, which stands at 8,848 meters above sea level, before she began to travel the globe to hone her mountaineering skills.Wolfson signed her Facebook post with a message that she said she felt was very important to send to the women hearing her story — “the sky is the limit.”“Don’t let the fear prevent you from following your dreams as far as they go. Don’t let anyone stop you. We have amazing powers inside of us with which we can achieve anything we aspire to.”
