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Alice Dunning stops for a photograph during her Bhutan climb in
November at 16,000 feet, where she raised a prayer flag for Ron
Dunning, her brother-in-law, who died of cancer in 1997.
“There’s a peculiar thing about breast cancer –
it hasn’t gone away nor has the need to find the cause and
work for the prevention gone away,” she said. “I am
dedicating the climb to three wonderful Marin women, who continue
to be such an inspiration to me. They are my very good friends and
breast cancer survivors.”
Dunning will join about 30 people in the 10th Climb Against the
Odds/Mount Shasta, June 21 though 27. She made her first climb of
the 14,162 foot peak with the BCF in July 2007.
Dunning is an avid rower and hiker who climbed Mount Whitney and
trained on Mount Tamalpais. She decided to participate in this
year’s Shasta climb during the Breast Cancer Fund’s
Sacred Trek in Bhutan in November. The nine-day trek included nine
hikers covering 80 miles and raising prayer flags at 16,000 feet.
“It was an amazing journey,” she said. “I am
committed to helping effect change that ends this worldwide
medical condition. Here in Marin County there is an even higher
incidence of breast cancer than in other locales, so environmental
research is critical to reduce the rate of diagnoses for women who
live here.”
The Breast Cancer Fund, based in California, raises funds to
identify, and advocate for the elimination of, environmental and
preventable causes of breast cancer.
Dunning has raised more than $25,000 for the Breast Cancer Fund.
Anyone who would like to help sponsor her climb may:
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