Ep. 757: How the Mountains Can Heal - Revisited - Jane Parnell
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Mountaineering: Jane Parnell First Woman to Climb Colorado's 100, 200, Then 300 Highest Peaks – Healing Rape Trauma Since 1970s Rockies, Mountaineering for Sanity and Coping.
Originally aired February 22, 2018
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 very few people believing her claim, she discovered mountaineering and this newfound passion helped Jane cope with the trauma 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. That milestone quickly became the highest 200 and subsequently, the highest 300 peaks in Colorado!
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 book: Off Trail: Finding My Way Home in the Colorado Rockies
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes I think, you know, you get to a skills level where you just make assumptions |
| 0:05.4 | that you can handle almost anything and then, you know, but, you know, sometimes, I mean, |
| 0:10.3 | if a boulder peels off a mountain and crashes you, there's not a whole lot you can do about that. Hey, folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Today's throwback |
| 0:36.3 | episode goes back to 2018 when Kurt was hosting the show. |
| 0:40.9 | And we're talking to Jane Parnell about climbing mountains and how mountaineering specifically and how mountains can heal us. |
| 0:49.7 | I know so many of us find refuge in the outdoors. |
| 0:53.1 | I know for me, just literally going outside and sitting |
| 0:56.7 | in grass or in some trees just does me so much good. And being out there in the wilderness |
| 1:04.2 | does just that much more for me, for my soul, for my mind. We need it, whether you realize it or not, we need to be out there. |
| 1:12.9 | And so for Jane, she realized it after a pretty horrific tragedy in her life. |
| 1:21.7 | If you are sensitive to this at all, I just want to warn you. |
| 1:25.8 | This episode does talk about rape a few times. Jane was |
| 1:29.9 | unfortunately a victim of that early in her life. It wasn't just that that was traumatizing. |
| 1:35.8 | It was the fact that very few people believed her. There was subsequent traumas that that happened |
| 1:41.7 | as well. And she has used and found refuge in the mountains ever since. |
| 1:48.3 | And I know that if that's a place she can find peace, that's a place that I, and I'm |
| 1:52.9 | sure you can find peace as well. |
| 1:55.0 | So I just wanted to tell you before we get into it, that there will be that discussion |
| 1:59.5 | in the episode. |
| 2:00.7 | She wrote a book about this |
| 2:02.0 | experience and about how she has wanted to climb the for you know she started climbing mountains |
| 2:06.9 | and realized she was getting close to the first hundred peaks the highest hundred in Colorado |
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