Boston Marathon bombing survivor Adrianne Haslet has check mountaineering off her bucket list.
The professional ballroom dancer lost a leg in the 2013 finish line attacks and ran the entire race of 26.2 mile last spring. Over the weekend, she climbed Ecuador’s third-highest mountain.
Haslet reached the top of 18,996 foot Volcan Cayambe with a team of climbers from the Range of Motion Project. The nonprofit group provides prosthetic limbs to the amputees around the world who don’t have access to them.
Haslet wrote, “I feel the most grounded I have felt in over three years,” on Monday from Ecuador in a Twitter message exchanged with The Associated Press. “There is something beautiful about disconnecting from the outside world and connecting with people who are passionate about a cause: gathering around a fire, training together, and bonding in a way you only can without outside influences.”
By Prakriti Neogi








