Cholita Tag

Lidia is a Cholita from Bolivia. She and several women have scaled some of the largest mountains in the Andes region (Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador). Lidia worked as a cook at the base of mountains to help other climbers and tourists. One day after asking her husband what the top of the mountain was like. He told her to go find out and she did. The mountains they have climbed are over 19,000 feet tall.

Lidia is one of the Aymara, an indigenous people from Bolivia. The Cholitas like many indigenous peoples in the Americas were looked down upon. But when Bolivia got its first indigenous president Evo Morales folks started to give them more respect. Along with the fighting Cholita wrestlers, they have been getting more respect.