Tetiana Yalovchak is 45 years old. She is the first Ukrainian to climb the seven highest peaks of the planet. She has swum the Bosporus. She has four degrees and wrote the book "Conquer Your Everest." She works as a motivational speaker and coach. She has only one more volcano to climb to complete the program of climbing the seven highest volcanoes on the Earth on seven continents. This program is new: it was launched in 2011 by scientist Amar Andalkar, who marked the necessary volcanoes on the map. The climbers liked the idea.

LIGA.net talked to Tetiana and found out what it was like to conquer the seven highest peaks of the planet, overcome her personal Everest and start taking veterans with amputations to the mountains.

"No" is not always "no"

She never dreamed of all this. She grew up in Selydove, studied economics in Donetsk, and opened her own travel agency. In the spring of 2014, she packed her summer clothes for a vacation, but she never returned to her house near the Donetsk airport. The Russian military was already there. When she came to, she asked herself: What next? I've lost everything. I have to start over. What if... to conquer Everest?

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