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A Cure Lies on the Mountain Top

June 19th, 2008 by Joe Filippazzo

This article appeared in the 19 June issue of The Kings Courier.

As the sun’s rays began to pierce the starry horizon at 3 a.m., Robin Schoenfeld looked out over Portland, Ore., with a proud smile and a full heart. Despite the wind-swept slopes of the volcano she was climbing and the brick of ice on her back that was once her water bottle, she pressed on toward the top of Mt. Hood to help find a cure for breast cancer.

At 10,500 feet from sea level, Brooklyn native Robin Schoenfeld has a lot to smile about in the Climb to Fight Breast Cancer.

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