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He reached the summit just over an hour before Perez and met her as he began to descend.

" Perez had already planned to make K2 her central focus this year when Ballinger offered her a chance to return to Everest, this time as a guide.

I was supposed to go in April with a woman from Saudi Arabia.

Just three weeks after summiting Everest, Perez and Mena were on a plane to Pakistan to meet Ballinger and Sherpas Gelje and Palden Namgye for the K2 climb.

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"My coach at the gym where I do some of my training and my doctor recommended I decline the invitation because of what Everest might take out of me and the training time I would lose for K2, but I felt it was too good of an opportunity, professionally," she said.

She is bilingual in English and Spanish.

Carla Perez was born on November 16, 1977 in Brazil.

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Ballinger was attempting to become the fourth American to climb Everest and K2 without oxygen.

Rock climbing, we always had women, but mountaineering not much.