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All The Wiser

58. An avalanche took her life, the healing power of nature saved his

All The Wiser

Kimi Culp

Health & Fitness, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.8652 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Adam Campbell is a record-holding life-long mountain adventure athlete, but no amount of experience could have prepared him for the day he accidentally triggered a massive avalanche that took the life of his beloved wife Laura. In this raw and tender episode, we talk about when things fall apart, emotional coping mechanisms, identity, the non-linear nature of grief, healing from grief, the power of vulnerability, and how just a little bit of kindness and gentleness can go a long way.




In this episode, we talk about:

  • The root of Adam’s love and connection with the outdoors.
  • His move back to Canada and navigating the divorce of his first wife.
  • The early days of falling in love with his wife, Laura.
  • His near-fatal climbing accident - falling 200 ft down a mountain.
  • How gratitude and love were instrumental in his recovery.
  • Losing his wife, Laura, in a tragic avalanche.
  • The process of grief, healing, and returning to the scene of Laura’s accident




Episode benefitting Climbing Grief Fund




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You get humbled a lot by nature.

0:59.1

You really figure out that you can't control nature.

1:02.7

You're really sort of responding to it.

1:05.1

And using what nature gives you, and I think I developed a really deep appreciation for that.

1:16.9

To say that Adam Campbell has a complicated relationship with nature would be a huge understatement.

1:23.8

This is a man who has devoted his entire life to his love of mountains, running them, climbing them, competing on them. He was an elite level, ultra-marathoner,

1:29.1

collecting podium finishes at prestigious races all over the world.

1:34.6

I had this really vivid image of the mountains behind me flipped upside down,

1:39.3

and I had time to think just how strange it was,

1:41.9

that was probably the last thing I was ever going to see.

1:45.0

Adam had broken his entire body, and along with it, an identity that he didn't know how to live

1:51.3

without. But with the help of the love of his life, Laura, he was able to find his way back to the

1:58.2

mountains he missed so dearly, until tragedy struck again, an avalanche that

2:04.7

killed his wife, Laura, while they were skiing early last year. Today, lessons on grief and loss

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