Seven Summits with Erin Parisi

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🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Erin Parisi is on her way to becoming the first openly trans person to climb the highest mountain on each continent, a series known as the Seven Summits.

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0:00.0	At some point I realized before I hit the top of that mountain that I was going to make it.
0:07.8	And then when I got to the top of the mountain I started dancing around and I was just yelling
0:11.7	like, who wants it?
0:12.7	Who wants it?
0:13.7	I'm doing it.
0:14.7	It's mine.
0:15.7	And I bust out the flag and somebody takes out the camera and takes the picture.
0:17.9	And I'm pretty much just euphoric at that point.
0:22.6	I'm on the top of that mountain like defying all of the weight that's been placed upon
0:26.1	me.
0:27.1	It's the extreme cold or whether it's the social aspects of it or whether it's the physical
0:31.8	aspect to overcome all that and just kind of be freed from that doubt.
0:35.8	It's just like redemption.
0:43.6	Erin Parisi just got back from climbing Vincent Massief, the highest peak in Antarctica.
0:50.0	When she made it to the top of the mountain Erin busted out a flag with pink blue and white
0:54.6	stripes.
0:56.1	Those that represent transgender pride.
0:59.2	Erin is on her way to becoming the first openly trans person to climb the highest mountain
1:03.8	on each continent, a series known as the Seven Summits.
1:08.4	So far she's climbed five of them.
1:11.4	Waving this flag on each peak has become a ritual for her.
1:14.8	By raising these colors Erin steps out of the shadows and tells the world who she is.
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