Bronka Sundstrom is a 93 years old mountaineer guide who lives in a house near the Mt. Rainier National Park entrance. Ms. Sundstrom and her husband Ake were avid hikers and she has become a Mt. Rainier guide. Known to everybody on the mountain, in 2002 she became the oldest woman to summit Mr. Rainier at the age of 77. She is also a Polish Jew and a Holocaust survivor who clings to the Polish language till this day as the core of her Polish identity.