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Climbing Past Stereotypes

A local teen is set to conquer Mount Kilimanjaro

When Eli Reimer reached basecamp at Mount Everest, he was perhaps more excited about his reward—Lay’s barbecue chips—than completing his climb and, more broadly, about his remarkable accomplishment as the first American with Down Syndrome to reach that altitude. “He took it in stride,” says Eli’s dad, Justin Reimer, about his son’s achievement in March […]

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