Record-breaking mountaineer Kristin Harila ready for a normal life

Newly minted world record-breaker Kristin Harila is done with 8,000-metre mountains and ready for a "normal life" after achieving her goal of giving women a rare role model in extreme climbing. "I haven't been thinking too much about the record... for me, I wanted to change something," Harila said about the male-dominated climbing sphere. And I think that if it's going to change, we need to have some profiles and we need to take some place." "When I realise that we are going to reach the summit, I cry a little bit... "I'm going home to have a normal life, live with my boyfriend, then get kids, get married.