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—Bruce Barcott, writing for Outside magazine in 2001

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO become one of the world’s premier high-altitude mountaineers? If Christine Boskoff is any example (and she certainly is), the answer is speed, stamina, brains, experience, and the ability to persevere with a smile. “Christine takes pain very well,” says Peter Habeler, the legendary Austrian climber who guided with Boskoff on Everest in 1999. “She can suffer without moaning, which few Westerners can or want to do anymore.” Her ability to endure in the Death Zone has led the 34-year-old Wisconsin native to the top of the world’s highest mountains. In the past six years she’s ticked off six of the fourteen peaks above 8,000 meters (Everest, Cho Oyu, Gasherbrum II, Lhotse, Shishapangma, and Broad Peak), in addition to becoming the only female expedition leader among the elite guide services operating on Everest. “She’s got great inner confidence and experience,” says American climber Charlie Fowler, who scaled Tibet’s 26,291-foot Shishapangma with Boskoff last fall. “I haven’t seen anybody stronger.”