This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by the North Face, telling stories of women pushing the boundaries of exploration, like Ultra Runner Fernando

My name is Fianna Masieo, I'm a tour runner, I run in high mountains.

Fernando Fernandoo, the highest mountain in north or south America.

And she used that summit bid to help raise awareness of the National Parks

Trash Problem. She also holds the fastest known time up and down Kilimanjaro and

use that to help the Kilimanjaro Orphanage Center.

She's also an environmental lawyer,

so it's safe to say that she feels a deep need

to do good in the world.

And she says it's because running is kind of egotistical and selfish.

And I feel that I need to like to share with the others like this passion and I need to share and to help others if I can with my sport.

Fernando has won a lot of races, but she says it's still difficult for her.

She runs on the verge of giving up.

At her most recent race, a 100-mile ultra two weeks after setting the had the things that I've done ever because my body wasn't prepared for that.

It was so difficult, she says, and the terrain was so rugged that finishing the race was going to get her

home faster than being picked up by a helicopter.

Then I thought, well, I think it would be faster if I run to the hotel, to the finish line,

because the hotel is just beside the finish line. With that kind of grit, it's not surprising that lots of people consider

Fernando a role model.

And this spring, through their Move Mountains initiative,

the North Face is dedicating itself to telling you more stories of relentless and unexpected female explorers

who inspire, prepare, and mobilize the next generation of women to push boundaries.

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