Chat With Climber Melissa Arnot, Part 2: How She Broke Up A Fist Fight High On Everest

In Part 1 of our chat with Melissa Arnot at New York’s American Alpine Club section dinner, she discussed fear, her commitment to the Sherpa people of Nepal and her goal of climbing Mt. Everest without supplemental oxygen. Here, the 31-year-old opens up about diffusing a fistfight at 21,000 feet, what it’s like as a woman guide in a mountaineering world dominated by men and the new climbing films “Meru” and “Everest.”