The eighty-eight-year-old explorer recently visited Outer Mongolia, where she met with nomads, Kazakh rug makers, and eagle-huntresses.
readers responded enthusiastically, making contributions to the project and tracking its status. Hillary reached the top of the world a little more than a month later, on April 23rd. “I have never experienced such sheer joy and excitement,” she said inI wrote, that May. “I was screaming, jumping up and down, for the first few minutes.”
After a twelve-year absence, Hillary popped up in my in-box earlier this year. Christina Hodson—a screenwriter and producer in Los Angeles, who got to know Hillary through a friend—was writing on her behalf, to let me know that Hillary was planning a trip to Outer Mongolia. Hodson is hoping to make a documentary about Hillary’s life.
Gallagher, a global-insurance company, sponsored the Mongolia trip. Hillary said that it had been interesting but draining. “About four weeks ago, I was so sick the doctors thought I was going to die,” she said. “My heart was accumulating fluid in the heart valve. I was sick while I was in Mongolia, but I kept going because there was a lot of money that had been spent, and I had an obligation, so as long as I could stand.” She’d flown from New York to Moscow, Moscow to Mongolia.
She was annoyed by the arrogance of some of her fellow-Americans, and impressed by the politeness of Mongolian kids. “They were like the children I knew when I was growing up,” she said. She recalled, “I had the honor of some ritual in which the oldest person in the family cuts sheep intestines off the ankle of a child when they reach their first birthday. So I was saying, ‘Oh, shit, I hope this damn thing doesn’t bite!’ ” Hillary has never married or had children.
She turned eighty-eight on June 12th. She did what she usually does, which is to give gifts to the people who have been nice to her all year: her mechanic, who changes the oil the way she wants him to; her butcher, who gives her the best cut of meat. In the past few months, her health has not been good. She has been in and out of the hospital, and says that she’s “skin and bones.” But she is already dreaming about her next trip.
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