Mountain Mission: Butler business owner reaching new heights, changing lives
CAMP HILL — All it took was one scene.
One moment.
“When I saw the sunrise from above the clouds, something switched in me,” said Julie Beall-McKelvey.
That was in 2016, when McKelvey joined her father, John Beall, in climbing Mount Fuji, the largest mountain in Japan. That summit was 12,389 feet.
“My father was a mountain climber, and that was going to be his last one,” McKelvey said of Mount Fuji. “He asked me to do it with him.
“That scene, that sunrise, it was so moving for me. I was hooked.”
McKelvey, 52, lives in Camp Hill. She owns all 34 Miracle-Ear franchises in Pennsylvania, including the one in Butler.
She decided to take her new love of mountain climbing to new heights — the highest heights.
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