Ep. 351: How Mountaineering Can Help Heal - Jane Parnell
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Jane Parnell has been hiking and climbing the Rocky Mountains since the 1970's when she discovered how the mountains could heal her traumatic wounds. After being raped when she was twenty-one and with few people believing her claim, she met a mountaineer who introduced her to mountaineering. They would eventually be married. Jane's new passion helped her cope with the trauma of the rape and other family issues that weighed heavily on her throughout life. By the time she was thirty, she had become the first woman to climb the 100 highest peaks of Colorado. Jane continued her quest for the summit by turning the goal of sumitting the 100 highest peaks into conquering the 200 highest and ultimately setting her sights on the 300 highest and nearly reached that goal. Jane is on the show today to share with us the ways in which adventure sports, and more specifically mountaineering, can help us find and maintain some sanity in our crazy world. Check out her new book: "Off Trail: Finding My Way Home in the Colorado Rockies"
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| 0:00.0 | Episode 351. |
| 0:06.7 | Jane Parnell talks about healing through mountain climbing and her new book, Off Trail. |
| 0:15.0 | A very large, one-and-a-half-ton boulder tipped over and caught my leg. |
| 0:20.7 | It crushed between my knee and my ankle, my right leg, my calf, between it and the boulder |
| 0:27.6 | underneath. |
| 0:28.6 | And I couldn't move a muscle. |
| 0:30.5 | I have never experienced that kind of pain before because my leg was being crushed. |
| 0:37.2 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast, brought to you by 180 Tech. |
| 0:41.6 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation |
| 0:45.6 | you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:49.9 | Now here's your host, Kurt Lindville. |
| 0:53.5 | This episode is brought to you in part by Bissell Bark Bath, the easier way to bathe |
| 0:59.1 | your dog indoors. |
| 1:01.1 | For more information, go to Bissell slash Adventure Sports and be sure to use the coupon code |
| 1:06.7 | adventure sports when you get a bark bath for your dog. |
| 1:12.1 | Hi friends. Today the show is about mountaineering, but not just mountaineering. It's about |
| 1:18.7 | using the mountains to grow, to heal for a lifetime. Today's guest is Jane Parnell, and Jane has climbed nearly all 300 of the highest peaks in Colorado. |
| 1:33.3 | That means she did the 14ers. She did the Centennials. She did the top 200s and has almost finished the 300s. |
| 1:41.0 | And she did it for reasons that really tell an amazing story. I'm excited to have Jane |
| 1:47.8 | with us today. And you can hear the whole story because she wrote a book about it. The book is |
| 1:54.5 | called Off Trail, Finding My Way Home in the Colorado Rockies. Jane, welcome to the program. |
| 2:01.4 | Well, thank you. |
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