Nearly to the end of the earth

摘要

Tracy Holmes had climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 2009 and says she should have known better because of that experience. But on her way up a mountain trail to a glacial lake in Patagonia, she realized too late that she'd forgotten an essential practice, and now her body was in trouble. "I could feel my blood sugar dropping like a rock," says Holmes, director and head of an agricultural banking unit in Modesto, Calif., for Bank of the West. And the hardest part of the climb remained.