Even though she is on the cusp of turning 80, Lesley Stahl is still climbing mountains. Thirty years ago, the “60 Minutes” correspondent “huffed and puffed for two months to get myself in training”…
” correspondent “huffed and puffed for two months to get myself in training” for what she has said was “one of the best days of my life,” a visit with the famous Rwanda mountain primates that were the basis of the 1988 film “Gorillas in the Mist.” Her stamina work at that time didn’t do much for her, she recalls in an interview. “I almost died climbing to find them.” Despite her work, “what I failed to take into account was the altitude. It just did me in.
Stahl is proving her mettle in new ways as she reaches an age that most people see as a time to break away from any kind of career. She tangled with Pres. Donald Trump on four different occasions in recent years, and managed to walk away from a coronavirus infection. “Lesley does not stay still,” says Bill Owens, the executive producer of “60 Minutes.”
She is among a small handful of TV personalities and executives who continue to do their job with as much gusto as they did when they were younger. Andrea Mitchell, who is nearing 74, not only contributes to a variety of NBC News reports as its chief foreign affairs and Washington correspondent but holds down a weekday hour on MSNBC. Judy Woodruff, also nearing 74, helps lead PBS’ venerable “NewsHour.
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