Ep. 852: K2 + The Seven Summits - Lisa Thompson
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Mountaineering: Lisa Thompson Second American Woman to Summit K2 – Seven Summits, Breast Cancer Survivor, Alpine Athletics Founder, All-Women Nepal Expedition, Book Finding Elevation. Lisa Thompson is the second American woman to summit K2, the second highest and considered the deadliest mountain in the world.
Lisa has also summitted the highest mountain on all seven continents and is currently coordinating an all-women’s expedition in Nepal in 2022, which will be led by Sherpani in support of Nepalese women.
She is a breast cancer survivor and in 2018 founded Alpine Athletics where she coaches aspiring climbers to reach their mountain goals.
Her forthcoming book, Finding Elevation, chronicles her path from novice climber to the summit of K2.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, today we're hearing from Lisa Thompson about climbing the seven summits of the world. Yes, the seven summits. And Lisa was not someone |
| 0:25.5 | who had a mountaineering background growing up. She grew up in the Midwest. And she's going to tell us |
| 0:30.1 | about how she got into mountaineering and climbing and what the seven summits was like. But that, |
| 0:36.5 | she wouldn't even consider as her biggest achievement. |
| 0:38.7 | She would consider the very difficult mountain, notoriously known as the deadliest |
| 0:43.2 | mountain in the world, K2, is probably being the biggest challenge of her life for a very |
| 0:48.0 | special reason. |
| 0:50.5 | And also, the anticlimatic finish of this experience, you'll have to listen to the episode to hear more. |
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| 1:13.1 | out there and have adventures. But let's go ahead and jump into Lisa's story and hear about it. |
| 1:17.6 | And before we do, she also has a book that is coming out in January. So we're kind of an early |
| 1:23.4 | jump on it. But her book is going to be called Finding Elevation. You can learn more about it at her |
| 1:29.0 | website, Lisa Climes.com, and more about her training and coaching plans for climbing and for all kinds |
| 1:36.2 | of athletes at alpineathletics.net. All right, folks, today you heard a little bit about Lisa's story in the intro, but we have her here now to talk. |
| 1:53.3 | Lisa Thompson, welcome to the show. |
| 1:55.2 | Thanks for having me, Mason. |
| 1:56.4 | I'm excited. |
| 1:57.2 | Yeah, I'm excited as well. |
| 1:58.6 | And so we talked to a little bit about it before I started recording, but where are you coming from and where is home for you if those aren't the same places? |
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