OUR KILIMANJARO HIKERS Bassett MD May Be Among First Women At Mountain’s Peak By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.ALLOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – When Mary Anne Whelan was spending a summer in Tanzania, Africa, her friends came up with a wild idea. Why not scale Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest? “There was a superstition that the Gods would be displeased if a woman climbed the mountain,” she said. “I guess they weren’t, because we did!” Whelan, the retired Bassett physician, in 1961 was…
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