David Mercado

David Mercado is a Reuters photographer based in La Paz, Bolivia.

An Aymara indigenous woman practices climbing on the Huayna Potosi mountain, Bolivia April 2016.

Casting aside imposing summits, these women are scaling Bolivia’s peaks in their traditional ‘cholita’ clothing

April 22, 2016Culture

Two years ago, about a dozen Aymara indigenous women in Bolivia put crampons on under their wide traditional skirts and started to do their own climbing.