So many mountain ranges in the U.S. are beloved by hikers.

The Rockies, the Sierra Nevadas, the Cascades.

But there are others that we don't hear about all that often.

Take the White Mountain Range in New Hampshire, which has some of the most difficult hiking in the country.

There are stretches of exposed terrain, steeply graded trails, brutally strong winds, and rapidly changing conditions. Adventuring there in the winter months provides extra challenges.

Thick snow blankets the trails, impacting navigation and visibility, and the region is famous for having some of the world's worst weather.

There are 48 peaks in the White Mountains that are over 4,000 feet tall, and it's become a tradition among New England hikers to summit all of them.

In 2021, Adventure Marty Fuller became the first black person to hike every

4,000 footer in the winter. She hits the trails all year long, but it's the cold season

that really gets her blood pumping. I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is wild ideas worth living,

an REI Co-op Studios production presented by Capital One and the

REI Co-Op MasterCard.

Marty Fuller, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.

You have truly lived some of the wildest ideas we've heard of on this podcast.

Thank you, Shelby. It's so wonderful to be here. Your wild idea was hiking all 48 of New Hampshire's

4,000 foot peaks, which is an incredible goal. I'm curious how you got into hiking and adventure as a kid.

I grew up in New York, not in the city, but just in one of the suburbs

just north of the city in Westchester County. And I always just loved nature. I love playing

outside. My parents are immigrants from Jamaica. And they both grew up in rural environments,

loving the outdoors. And so they raised my brother and I really loving the outdoors in a different way than Americans

tend to take on the outdoors, meaning in a much more organic way, like going for walks,

learning the names of birds and trees, visiting parks.

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