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She Explores

Climbing Our Own Mountains: Wasfia Nazreen

She Explores

Gale Straub

Road Trips, Sports, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Society & Culture, Creativity, Wilderness, Hiking, Places & Travel, Outdoor Women, Camping, Outdoors

4.6914 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In partnership with Sherpa Adventure Gear, guest host Laura Hughes interviews Wasfia Nazreen-- mountaineer, activist, and writer-- to learn about what it was like to take a journey up each of the Seven Summits, what it was like to be the first person from Bangladesh to do it, and how approaching external mountains in our lives mirror the personal work it takes to summit our internal ones.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, it's Gail. Today I am very excited to pass the might to Laura Hughes for this special

0:05.7

episode of She Explorers. You'll probably recognize Laura's voice. Laura is the wonderful host of

0:11.5

our sister's show, Women on the Road,

0:13.6

and she's also an ambassador for a shortbread venture gear,

0:16.3

who we're creating this episode with.

0:18.9

I know you'll be in good hands for this one

0:20.6

as Laura interviews Waspian Nazarene, a Bangladeshi mountaineer, activist, social worker, and writer.

0:27.0

Sherpa recently brought a Waspia to their ambassador team because as you'll hear, she is a highly driven woman in the outdoors and

0:34.8

has some unique ties to both the brand as well as Nepal. I hope you'll enjoy

0:40.1

okay all with the show.

0:45.0

This episode of She Explores is brought to by Sherpa Adventure Gear.

0:49.0

Founded in 2003 by Tashi Sherpa and his family to help the communities in people of Nepal,

0:53.7

Sherpa adventure gear seeks to honor legendary high-altitude climbers by creating

0:57.8

reliable adventure gear you can take with you anywhere.

1:01.0

Sherpa is made for the adventurous, for people with open minds, big hearts, and a desire to explore.

1:06.0

And as I hear in this special episode, they're all about giving back too.

1:10.0

In short, Chirpa is a small brand committed to making a big impact.

1:15.0

Stay tuned for later in this episode, when we hear from Wosha Nesreen,

1:18.3

mountaineer an activist, about what she loves most about Sherpa's mission and

1:21.9

products. To learn more, visit Sherpa's mission and products.

1:23.0

To learn more, visit Sherpa Adventure Gear.com.

1:26.0

Almost like I was saying, it was a spiritual practice for me to reflect deeper into the inner mountains and addressing the inner mountains while I was on the physical journey.

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