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Kelly Perkins is an American heart transplant recipient known for climbing mountains to inspire others and promote organ donation. Perkins has selected peaks of many famous mountains, with both personal and cause related significance, since her heart transplant operation in 1995.〔()〕 A good example is her climb of El Capitan in Yosemite Park, with its natural heart shaped cut-out, where she was recently quoted as saying, "We thought, how great would that be to climb straight through the heart of El Capitan... in a symbolic way we are tugging on the heart strings of people to be educated about organ donation".〔()〕 ==Mountains climbed== Some of the mountains Perkins has climbed since her heart transplant operation are: * Half Dome, California, USA, 1996 * Mt. Whitney, California, USA, 1997〔()〕 * Mount Fuji, Japan, 1998〔()〕 * Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, 2001〔 (【引用サイトリンク】url = http://www.seracfilms.com/projects/kilimanjaro/Kilimanjaro.htm )〕〔()〕 * Matterhorn, Zermatt, Switzerland, 2003〔 (【引用サイトリンク】url = http://www.jpmountainguide.com/matterhornkelly.html )〕 * Aspiring, National Park, New Zealand, 2005 * El Capitan, California, USA, 2005 * Cajon de Arenales, Argentina, 2007〔 〕 * Half Dome, California, USA, 2008 * Teton Range, Wyoming 2009〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kelly Perkins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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