Vanessa Archontidou and Christina Flampouri are two Greek women with the dream to conquer the world’s highest summits, and bring Greece to the top.
With five peaks already down and two more to go, if they succeed they’ll be the first ever Greek women to do so.
Even though they both call themselves “ordinary”, nothing about their life goal, or their effort is.
While many women in their shoes – juggling careers and families- can’t make it to the gym more than three times a week, Vanessa and Christina train harder than most athletes, climbing four nearby mountains a week, weightlifting and doing crazy rounds of cardio in order to prepare for their next mission which requires them to be able to carry nearly 40 kilograms of equipment each.
The duo has also set up an online page, a cause called ‘A woman can be’ and aside from supporting their alpine ventures they try to empower while changing the world’s perceptions around what a woman can be.
Their motto is “a woman can be a professional, a mother, a housewife, a climber”.
