DISABLED WOMAN SCALES OLYMPUS ON FRIEND'S BACK

A Greek university student with disabilities has summited Mount Olympus, Greece's highest peak. Eleftheria Tosiou, 22, who has been wheelchair-bound all her life, was strapped into a modified backpack and carried to the top by Marios Giannakou, 28, a friend and long-distance endurance runner who has scaled the 2,917-metre mountain about 50 times. Tosiou added that “the most difficult part was the psychological one. A man lost his life there a day before.” Mount Olympus's jagged peaks earned it the moniker “the throne of Zeus.”

PETROS SOFIKITIS / HANDOUT VIA REUTERS Constantinos Sofikitis, Eleftheria Tosiou and Marios Giannakou at the peak of Mount Olympus in Greece.