Virginia Arsenault: Charlottetown

Lobuche East Dept: Virginia Arsenault, from Charlottetown, will climb Island Peak 6,189 metres , Lobuche East 6,119 metres and Chukung Ri 5,565 metres , according to CBC. "When I was born one of my kidneys, my right one, was severely deformed. It wasn't working properly and it was failing. They decided to remove it when I was 14," she told News and a P.E.I. woman will be climbing her way to the top of, not one, but three Himalayan mountains next month to raise money for kidney research. Arsenault said she wants to help others dealing with kidney disease, something she is familiar with after having a kidney removed at the age of 14. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.