How a Makeshift Pad With Tissues & Medical Tapes Helped This Mountaineer at 16000 Feet Above Sea Level

Imagine reaching a mountain camp 16,000 feet above sea level, only to realise that your period has started and you have no sanitary pads. There is no nearby shop, no easy way to restock supplies and no one around to ask for help.  With another four to five days left at the location, what do you do? For mountaineer Yogeshwari Bohare, the answer was to work with what she had. Bohare’s makeshift pad, made with tissue paper and medical tape which is now going viral, has brought attention to a practi

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