David Mercado

David Mercado is a Reuters photographer based in La Paz, Bolivia.

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Casting aside imposing summits, these women are scaling Bolivia's peaks in their traditional 'cholita' clothing

April 23, 2016

Two years ago, about a dozen Aymara indigenous women in Bolivia put crampons on under their wide traditional skirts and started to do their own climbing.

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