Climbing K2 with Lisa Thompson

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🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Lisa Thompson has climbed 14 mountains in the last 14 years. She has reached the seven highest summits on each continent, scaled many mountains in the Himalayas, and in 2018 she became the second American woman to climb the treacherous K2 in Pakistan.

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0:00.0	The first part of my climbing career was really about proving what I was capable of.
0:11.2	And it wasn't until much, much later and a lot of life changes that I think had enough
0:16.7	wisdom to start to pay attention to what the mountains were teaching me.
0:21.0	And now my climbing is much more about that.
0:25.6	In the last 14 years, Lisa Thompson has climbed 14 mountains.
0:30.7	Some of them have been closer to her home in Seattle, Washington, like Mount Rainier and
0:34.9	Mount Baker.
0:36.5	Others stand scattered around the globe.
0:39.3	Lisa has reached the 7 highest summits on each continent, scaled many mountains in the
0:44.4	Himalayas.
0:45.4	And in 2018, she became the second American woman to climb the treacherous K2 in Pakistan.
0:53.3	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is wild ideas worth living, an REI co-op studios production.
1:04.2	Lisa Thompson has completed some of the tallest, toughest climbs in the world.
1:08.9	And every aspect of her life has been influenced by the mountains.
1:13.4	In the midst of her incredible mountaineering career, Lisa also survived breast cancer.
1:18.8	The experience dramatically shifted her motivation for climbing.
1:23.2	Years later, she founded an athletic coaching company, and recently, Lisa published her first
1:28.6	book titled Finding Elevation.
1:32.1	Her journey as a mountaineer wasn't a straightforward one, though.
1:36.0	In fact, 15 years ago, climbing wasn't even on her radar.
1:43.0	Lisa Thompson, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:45.8	Thank you for having me.
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