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Heart transplant patient conquers Andes

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:18 PM EST

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** TO GO WITH ANDINISTA OSADA ** In this photo provided by Kelly Perkins, American Kelly Perkins, who had a heart transplant in November 1995, climbs a peak in this February 2007 photo, in Cajon de Arenales, Argentina. Perkins added a tricky technical rock climb in the South American Andes to her string of mountaineering feats. Perkins, who has climbed the Matterhorn, Japan's Mount Fuji and Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa with another heart beating in her chest, just completed an arduous roped-ascent with her husband, Craig, up unexplored mountainsides in the remote Cajon de Arenales region near the border with Chile, more than 640 miles (1,100 kilometers) west of Buenos Aires. (AP Photo/Dorte Pietron, HO) ** NO SALES **Kelly Perkins, a 45-year-old Californian who had a heart transplant more than a decade ago, has added a dangerous free climb in the Andes to a string of mountaineering feats.


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