Tag: mountaineering
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Hiking for Beginners: Perspectives from a 50-Something-Year-Old Who Set, Achieved Her Mount Everest Dream
In her guest post, “What’s Your Summit?”, hiker and climber Karen Whelan shared her seven-year journey toward achieving her dream of climbing Mount Everest amid the twists and turns of living a full life. Wanting to know her thoughts about where, how, and why we, too, could experience our own hiking adventures, I asked Karen…
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What’s Your Summit?
Zig Zigler once said “[p]eople do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mt. Everest. You hit what you aim at, and if you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” While he is absolutely right, I think most people do not aim at anything most of the time.…