Rebecca Stevens was the first British woman to climb Mount Everest(珠穆朗玛峰). Before she went up the highest mountain in the world, she was a journalist(记者) and lived in a small flat(公寓) in South London.
In 1993, Rebecca left her job and her family and traveled to Asia with some other climbers. She found that life on Everest is hard. "You mustn’ t carry everything on your back," she said, "so you can only take things that you will need. You can’ t wash on the mountain, and in the end I didn’ t even take a toothbrush. There is no water but snow,"
When Rebecca reached the top of Mount Everest on May 17, 1993, it was the best moment of her life. Suddenly she became famous.
Now she has written a book about the trip and people often ask her to talk about it. She has a new job too, on a science program on television.
Rebecca is well-known today and she has more money than before, but she still lives in the little flat in South London among her pictures and books about mountains!
Rebecca went to Asia to ______ in 1993.