Climbing Everest is Easy Compared to Surviving an Abusive Parent, With Melissa Arnot Reid

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Arnot Reid’s mountaineering resume is a jaw dropping list of accomplishments; hundreds of summits of the world’s tallest, most dangerous peaks, including becoming the first American woman to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen. Melissa has an uncommon athletic prowess, but what truly fueled her mountain pursuits was a long held and long protected emotional emptiness. In a gut-wrenching new memoir, Enough, Melissa details the childhood abuse that created harmful adult behaviors, like pushing her body to dangerous physical limits and pushing her psyche into abusive relationships. Both her trauma and her mountaineering accomplishments are singular, but everyone can understand the challenge of grappling with your parents and your past.

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1:13.0	Long division.
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