Ep. 237: From Attorney to Mountaineer - Grace McDonald
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2017
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Grace McDonald found herself working all hours as an attorney in Canada. However her desire to climb the world's greatest mountains got the best of her. She traded in her long hours in law work for a pair of crampons and hit the ground running (well trekking really). She hasn't looked back since. We caught up with her to have her fill us in on what she's been up to and what kinds of experiences she's had from the summits.
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| 0:00.0 | Instead of going straight down, I started actually stepping over to the right with my front points in the ice. |
| 0:06.0 | So I was actually putting myself in a pendulum situation if I lost my footing as I was going down. |
| 0:12.6 | And sure enough, I lost my footing and I pendulumed over and smacked right into the ice. |
| 0:18.6 | And he thought I was going to die at that point. |
| 0:28.8 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast, brought to you by 180TAC. |
| 0:33.1 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:37.8 | Episode 237, Mountaineering with Grace MacDonald. |
| 0:50.2 | Hi, and welcome back to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:53.6 | This is Travis. |
| 0:54.8 | I've got a good one for you guys. |
| 0:56.3 | Today, it's Grace McDonald. |
| 0:58.2 | If you guys don't know, Grace, she's from Toronto, Canada, and she's an attorney-turned |
| 1:03.1 | mountain climber. |
| 1:04.5 | And instead of trying to hack an intro for her, I'm going to let her tell you all about |
| 1:09.9 | how she got into mountain climbing |
| 1:11.4 | and why she turned away from the rigors of law to go do something so cool. So for starters, |
| 1:18.3 | Grace, welcome to the show. Hi, thanks for having me. Good to have you. So yeah, let's jump in. |
| 1:24.8 | I mentioned you being an attorney. So do me a favor and tell our audience about how it is you started mountain climbing |
| 1:31.2 | and how your focus ended up growing to mountain climbing and kind of away from your standard day job. |
| 1:38.2 | Yeah, so I was originally into journalism and quickly realized that didn't pay much money. |
| 1:47.8 | So I went back to school with the sole purpose of making money and decided that law would be the right way to do that. |
| 1:54.9 | And then about seven years into law with money being my main focus, I quickly discovered I was unhappy, which tends to be |
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