Ep. 494: From Collapsed Spine to Accomplished Climber - Astrid Southam

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Science, Health & Fitness, Sports, Nature, Fitness, Wilderness

4.6 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Adventure (ad·ven·ture): an unusual and exciting, typically hazardous, experience or activity.

That basically sums up life itself. The most unexpected, seemingly unfair, and hazardous things happen to us at every turn. We want adventure, but don't always love when it shows up. A life-altering injury is, by the definition above, an adventure. Well, it's not always exciting, but you get the picture.

To go from a collapsed spine at the age of 19 to being on a sponsored climbing expedition to the Ivory Coast is not an overnight journey, nor is it pleasant, but it is adventure. Astrid's story is one of hope, patience and sheer grit to rise from what many would call a crippling situation (literally) to seeing the beauty in what happens to all of us at some point and accepting it as what life is all about.

Adventure doesn't always lead us down a peaceful path but teaches us to find peace no matter what path we're on.

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0:00.0	My physio in the UK said, don't even go to lectures with a bottle of water.
0:05.2	If you want water, carry an empty bottle, you fill it at university.
0:09.7	You drink it at university.
0:11.3	And then you put the empty bottle back in your bag.
0:13.3	So I went to lectures with a piece of paper and a pencil, literally.
0:19.8	This is the adventure sports podcast where we talk to athletes, adventurers, and business owners from around the world of adventure sports.
0:28.1	Whether you're climbing Mount Everest, starting a bike shop, or getting up off your couch to take your kids hiking for the first time, we want you to have the motivation and inspiration you need to chase
0:38.4	that next adventure. The Adventure Sports podcast is brought to you by Camp Crate, the leaders in
0:44.5	fully planned self-guided backpacking adventures, as well as backpacking gear rental. You can check
0:50.6	them out at campcrate.net.
1:09.1	There is so much about our futures that we are not in control of, good and bad.
1:14.5	And the only thing we really, really have control over,
1:17.7	and even then it's hard, is our attitudes.
1:19.1	Life happens.
1:22.7	As my dad taught me, you know,
1:26.3	you've got to stop looking at these problems you have as diversions from life and actually is life itself.
1:28.5	And the way you handle it is going to build your character or tear it down if you're not
1:33.0	handling it well.
1:34.5	And so today's episode is with Astrid Southam.
1:38.5	She is a student in Oxford.
1:41.4	And she had an incredibly unpredictable, unexpected injury that just kind of happened one day,
1:51.1	and then from that day forward, her life is different.
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