- It is not often one meets an elite mountaineer in the steamy heat of a tropical summer, but Carina Dayondon is not a typical mountain climber. The fourth eldest in a poor family of 14 children, raised in the sleepy town of Don Carlos, in central Mindanao, in the southern Philippines, she was expected to help bring up her brothers and sisters, not scale the world’s highest peaks.
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2174268/filipino-mountaineer-her-journey-scale-seven
