Beloved teacher, activist, mountaineer feared dead (Kathleen Namphy)

[Khephra]

A 69-year-old Palo Alto woman and retired Stanford University lecturer who twice climbed Mount Kilimanjaro is missing and is believed to have perished while hiking on a mountain in Iran this week, a university spokeswoman said Thursday.

Kathleen Namphy, a peace activist who survived long battles with breast cancer and Hodgkin's disease, disappeared Sunday while climbing 18,600-foot- high Mount Damavand.

The body of a female hiker has reportedly been found on the mountain, and Namphy's son, Andre, is on his way to Iran to identify the body, a family spokeswoman said.

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She was also a grandmother, an environmentalist, a frequent hiker in the Sierra and a peace activist who traveled to Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Baghdad on behalf of the Christian Peacemakers group.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/27/BAGGI8FAU11.DTL

[WI_DEM]

1. She lived life to the fullest

God Bless her.

[HippieCowgirl]

2. What a way to go!

I hope I die as well as she did - doing something she loved, embraced by the mountain. It sounds like she made her life on this planet count for somehthing.

[Eurobabe]

3. She died doing what she loved

that's how I hope to go out when my time comes.

[glitch]

4. "I want to be alive when I die" - Margaret Bourke-White

Not sure she really said it, but her character did in a tv movie and I've never forgotten it.
This woman was alive when she died. RIP Kathleen Namphy.