When you are three miles above sea level on a mountain's glacial sea of snow and ice, that's as far ahead as you can allow yourself to think. Take the next step, and then the next.
Lungs burn, legs ache.
One step at a time. Laura Evans knows that the same mental focus can be necessary to survive other challenges as well . There are some amazing women who climb mountains, and others who survive battles with cancer. Fewer still have triumphed at both. And in an irony that perhaps only Laura Evans herself can totally understand, she is using each one to win battles against the other.