The first time I was exposed to the great outdoors was when my mother sent me off to do a mountain craft course in Arthur’s Pass. Thinking about it now, there must have been some kind of spiritual association about being in nature, though at 14, I didn’t fully understand it. I just knew I wanted to go back.
When I left school at the end of sixth form, I knew I wanted to go to university, but angsted over what to study.
I was walking along one day – by this stage, I’d climbed Mt Aspiring and Aoraki/Mt Cook – when this (metaphorical) hand tapped me on the shoulder and said, ‘Go climbing.’
So I did – on an expedition to Alaska to try the second ascent of a really hard route on Denali, the highest mountain in North America. I thought I was quite a good climber. Turns out I wasn’t very good at all.
I spent two years in America climbing big walls, climbs that can take a week, where you sleep on hammocks hanging alongside the rock. I met a lot of cool people and I learned a lot of new skills. I also did a lot of growing up.
I was 24 the first time I went to the Himalayas, to attempt a summit on Cho Oyu. I realized then that I did all right at altitude, and returned for six more high-altitude expeditions in three years, finishing with Everest.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة February 24 2020 من New Zealand Woman's Weekly.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة February 24 2020 من New Zealand Woman's Weekly.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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