Ep. 628: Climbing Through Adversity - Melissa Strong
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Being a restaurant owner during this Coronavirus outbreak is not a walk in the park. However, facing seemingly insurmountable challenges is nothing new to Melissa. Today she tells us her story of overcoming a terrible accident that nearly completely jeopardized her love of climbing. She still deals with trauma, but she has learned to use it as fuel to continue moving forward. I hope it inspires you, no matter what you’re going through.
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| 0:00.0 | If you love the Adventure Sports podcast, I'm confident that you're going to love Armchair Explorer. |
| 0:04.7 | It's a new podcast by a recent guest, Aaron Miller, who is an award-winning London Times and |
| 0:09.6 | National Geographic Travel Rider, who basically sits down with some of the world's biggest |
| 0:14.8 | explorers and adventurers and lets them tell their favorite story of all time. |
| 0:19.8 | We're talking Olympic gold medalists, |
| 0:21.7 | who's backcountry ski in Alaska, to award-winning travel riders who walk across Antarctica |
| 0:27.2 | in the footsteps of Shackleton, guerrilla trekking with leading conservationists, great white shark |
| 0:33.1 | diving with some of the best in the industry, as well as interviewing astronauts about spacewalking |
| 0:39.2 | above Earth. It's honestly a condensed version of our show taking the best of the best stories |
| 0:45.1 | and letting those explorers tell them. If you're interested to hear more, I highly encourage you |
| 0:50.9 | check out armchair-explorer.com or just looking up armchair explorer |
| 0:56.5 | anywhere you find podcasts and let it inspire you to get out there and do something fun and do |
| 1:01.8 | something epic. Just because I still had those two thumb tips, even though the insides were |
| 1:07.8 | kind of burnt out. And he told the nurse to get a needle and he pricked |
| 1:11.7 | both of my thumbtips. And he said, if they bleed, I will try to save it. And they both bled. |
| 1:22.1 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the |
| 1:27.4 | planet. |
| 1:27.8 | We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around them |
| 1:32.1 | and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun. |
| 1:52.6 | As you'll hear, Melissa Strong is just an incredibly resilient person. |
| 1:59.9 | A while back, she had a pretty serious accident where she severely burned her hands and lost a few fingers. |
| 2:02.0 | They originally thought it was going to be a lot worse, but she was able to salvage a lot of the fingers. And that's really important because, |
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