Remembering Hilaree Nelson | Staying Confident in Life-Threatening Environments

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Hilaree Nelson.

With a career spanning two decades that includes dozens of first descents through more than 40 expeditions to 16 different countries, Hilaree is the most prolific ski mountaineer of her generation.

Some of these ‘firsts” in the world of ski mountaineering include linking two 8000m peaks (Everest and Lhotse) in one push, first ski descents on Baffin Island, a first American ascent and ski descent of Papsura peak in India , and a first ski descent of the 4th highest peak in the world, Lhotse.

Hilaree is the Captain of the North Face Athlete Team, an active leader on climate with Protect Our Winters, and an avid proponent of wild places such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

She was also named by Men’s Journal as one of the most adventurous women of the last 25 years, as well as National Geographic’s 2018 Adventurer of the Year.

In this conversation, Hilaree shares some key takeaways from her expeditions, where the wrong decision could mean the difference between life and death.

We touch on everything from confidence to managing anxiety --- and that’s applicable for the difficult times we find ourselves in now.

In Hilaree’s words:

Managing anxiety starts with being present and dealing with what you have right in front of you. I break it up into things I can manage instead of overwhelming myself by trying to figure out the whole picture all at once.

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0:00.0	You know you're talking about having to make really hard decisions and scary not forgiving environments and so I find that
0:11.2	honesty is the best thing to bring to the table.
0:16.5	And I'd like to think that I really know
0:19.7	my skill set at this point,
0:21.1	and I don't want to overplay it but I'm learning really harday and by Trade and Training I'm a sport and performance psychologist
0:45.9	as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create and I just want to take a note I
0:50.8	couldn't be more stoked to be part of this community than I am right now with the current conditions that we're all
0:57.1	under and I'm talking about COVID-19 and the coronavirus pandemic that we're experiencing. Our community is alive, it's strong, it's
1:05.9	powerful, we are nimble, and like I'm so stoked to be in it with you guys and to be part of this experience about what we're capable of and to also celebrate those of us who have been for years investing in quality thinking and quality health.
1:25.0	So I know that many of you, your immune systems are strong.
1:29.0	And I know that many of us are worrying if we have what it takes and I also know that
1:34.6	there's real fear that's sitting underneath this thing and I don't know how it's
1:39.1	going to work out nobody knows the uncertainty is high I notice it myself and all of that being said
1:45.2	I'm so happy to be in it with you guys. I feel part of something very special and
1:49.9	if you're not in it yet, punch over to finding mastery.net
1:54.0	forward slash tribe, as well as find us on social at Michael Jervay
1:58.6	on Insta Twitter, LinkedIn as well. And, know I just I don't know there's a lot going on for all of us and I'm
2:09.6	thankful that we have this community that we can share together with and I'm honored to be part of it and a curator of it.
2:17.0	And with that, you know, these conversations are about helping understand how people have found incredible insight.
2:27.0	Like, where do they come from?
2:30.0	And I'm not talking about place in the world,
2:32.0	but like their psychology.
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