Ep. 436: From Attorney to Mountaineer Revisited- Grace McDonald
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Grace McDonald found herself working incredibly long hours as an attorney. However, her desire to climb the world's greatest mountains got the best of her. She traded in her security and career 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 see if she's found what she's looking for.
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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. |
| 0:06.1 | So I was actually putting myself in a pendulum situation if I lost my footing. |
| 0:11.3 | And sure enough, I lost my footing and I pendulumed over and smacked right into the ice. |
| 0:17.0 | And he thought I was going to die. |
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| 0:56.5 | But until then, here's the episode. |
| 1:02.4 | Hi, welcome back to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:05.7 | This is Travis. |
| 1:06.8 | I've got a good one for you guys. |
| 1:08.3 | Today, it's Grace MacDonald. |
| 1:10.3 | If you guys don't know, Grace, she's from Toronto, Canada, and she's an attorney-turned mountain climber. |
| 1:16.6 | And instead of trying to hack an intro for her, I'm going to let her tell you all about how she got into mountain climbing and why she turned away from the rigors of law to go do something so cool. So for starters, |
| 1:30.4 | Grace, welcome to the show. Hi, thanks for having me. Good to have you. So yeah, let's jump in. |
| 1:36.9 | I mentioned you being an attorney. So do me a favor and tell our audience about how it is you started |
| 1:42.5 | mountain climbing and how your focus ended up |
| 1:45.7 | growing to mountain climbing and kind of away from your standard day job. |
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