KUALA LUMPUR: As a child from Nepal's hilly, rural district of Sindhupalchok, Maya Gurung has often dreamed of scaling the world's highest peak, Mount Everest.
Her dream would have remained just a dream had not a twist of fate made her run away from home to escape an arranged marriage.
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