Sharon Adele Wood: Canadian Mountaineer
At age 17, she became the first western woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Canadian Fauna: ProngHorn, ProngBuck or American Antelope
It lives in Saskatchewan and Alberta as well as in the USA and although similar to the deer it is not a member of this family.
The ProngHorn is the fastest animal in the Western Hemisphere and second in the world after the cheetah which used to live in North America.
In the Summer, they live with small groups or in solitary. In the Winter, they form large herds and not only can it reach 55-85 km/ph it can maintain that speed for hours!
It is the only member of the Antilocapridae family, one of 12 species that existed during the Pleistocene in N. America and one of the five remaining by the time humans entered these territories...
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