The cliff divers of Acapulco, Mexico, are famous all over the globe for leaping off a platform carved from the cliffs above the waters of the Pacific Ocean, more than 130 feet below. Paola Medina is the rare woman among the ranks of the cliff divers, and her path to those cliffs above Acapulco is even more unusual, as the BBC’s Clayton Conn reports.
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