Category: Survivors in the News - Part 3

From the Deepest Valley to the Highest Peak: A Survivor’s View From the Top of The World

When asked by the New York Times in March 1923 why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, English mountaineer George Mallory famously responded, “because it’s there.” Nearly eighty years later, Ohioan Sean Swarner also summited Mt. Everest; not because the mountain was there, but because he was. The survivor of two highly-lethal cancers during his…

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Cokie Roberts had already told her bosses at ABC News that she wasn’t renewing her contract as co-anchor of “This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts” before her breast cancer was discovered. Like many other women, Cokie continued to work “and put one foot in front of the other” during her treatment. But when…