Vanessa O'Brien: Facing Fear, Finding Humility and Surviving the 'Death Zone'

Beyond Talking Points, hosted by Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley, provides author and community focused interviews to highlight a diverse range of perspectives on various topics.
Vanessa O'Brien, British mountaineer and an American mountaineer (dual citizenship), explorer, aquanaut, public speaker and author of To the Greatest Heights: Facing Danger, Finding Humility, and Climbing a Mountain of Truth, discusses 'How to Turn Adversity into Triumph'.
On June 12th, 2020, Vanessa became the first woman to reach Earth's highest and lowest points, receiving a Guinness World Record. She became the first American woman to climb K2 and the first British woman to climb K2 (as a result of her dual nationality).
Vanessa is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and an Honorary Advisory Board member of the Scientific Exploration Society (SES).
0:00 Intro
1:07 The transition from banking, to mountain climbing to aquatics
6:13 What peaked the interest to climb Mt. Everest?
9:50 The intrigue of risk - can knowledge tilt the scale of risk towards succeeding
12:00 K2 was not a quick succession
13:59 The summit is not the goal
15:58 The mentality to climb Mt. Everest
22:25 Assessing when to turn back or keep going
27:10 "The descent is where most deaths occur..."
31:01 "Fear is what happens in our own head."
34:17 Most surprising personal aspect that climbing brought out
40:07 The level of excitement for life
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