Selena Gomez to Star as Peruvian Mountaineer & Social Entrepreneur Silvia Vásquez-Lavado

It’s an uphill battle for Selena Gomez

The 28-year-old Mexican American actress/singer will portray pioneering Peruvian mountaineer and social entrepreneur Silvia Vásquez-Lavado in a new film, based on Vásquez-Lavado’s upcoming memoir In the Shadow of the Mountain.

Selena Gomez

Vásquez-Lavado is the first gay woman to complete the Seven Summits, the highest mountains (including Mount Everest) on each of the seven continents. She’s also the founder of Courageous Girls, a nonprofit that helps survivors of sexual abuse and trafficking, and has organized excursions for abuse survivors to the Mount Everest base camp. In the Shadow of the Mountain is expected to be published in 2022.

Silvia Vásquez-Lavado

Gomez will produce the film through her July Moon Productions. Vásquez-Lavado and Lara Love Hardin of Idea Architects are executive producing.

Elgin James will pen and direct In the Shadow of the Mountain. He wrote the film Lowriders and co-created the series Mayans M.C.

Gomez has feature film credits on Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, Adam McKay’s The Big Short and Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die.”

Liaño Gonzalez Becomes First Climber to Double Summit on Mount Everest in the Same Season

David Liaño Gonzalez is climbed his way into the history books…

On Sunday, the 33-year-old Mexico native became the first climber to double summit on Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, in the same season, according to the climb’s organizers.

David Liaño Gonzalez

Liaño Gonzalez reached the top of the world through both the north and south sides of Everest, said Asian Trekking.

Liaño Gonzalez reached the summit of Everest on Sunday via the Tibetan north side after climbing to the mountain’s top on May 11 from the south side in Nepal.

Mount Everest is just over 29,000 feet tall and located in the Himalayas between China and Nepal.

“Congratulations!!! Great news,” Asian Trekking said in a statement posted on its website.

Liaño Gonzalez was accompanied by high altitude Sherpa Samden Bhote when he summited Everest from the Nepalese side and climbed with Mingma Sherpa on Sunday, Asian Trekking representatives said.

The climber is a businessman and adventurer who was born in Mexico City.

On May 29, the climbing world will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first climb to the summit of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.