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Mt. Everest climber suffering from MS reaches the final, most dangerous stretch

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This was a week of great gain and of sobering losses for the northern Wisconsin woman trying to make it to the top of Mount Everest.Mike Simonson talked to her by satellite telephone Friday…

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