Today’s conversation is another deep dive and was a really cool moment for me: Allie was the subject of one of my first major feature articles when I was writing for magazines over a decade ago. At that time, she had just summitted Everest for the first time and her climbing career has not stopped since!
She is Australian mountaineer with 23 years of climbing experience and believes the biggest challenges offer the greatest rewards in life. It is during these challenges that she discovers what she is truly capable of. Her current project is to climb to the true summits of all 14 of the worlds 8000m peaks without additional oxygen, in the world's fastest time.
Allie didn’t discover rock climbing until she was 23 when she signed up to an Outdoor Recreation course at a local TAFE College. A 10-day technical mountaineering course in New Zealand in December of 1999 changed her life as she found a sport that she was passionate about. Since her first expedition on Aconcagua in Argentina she’s been hooked on high altitude mountaineering.
She has reached the summit of Everest, the fore-summit of Manaslu and in April 2022 she became the third Australian to achieve the summit of Annapurna 1, the most dangerous of all the fourteen 8000m peaks. On May 24th,2023 she reached a height of 8450m on Everest without O2; the highest altitude that any Australian woman has been without using supplemental oxygen. Check out her website for her entire resume- it’s far too long to list where there’s a word limit!
In this episode, we talk about how she stumbled upon mountaineering, taking big risks for big rewards, having an intimate relationship with death, busting through limiting beliefs, why mindset is everything, the sacrifices we make and coming to peace with them, knowing who you truly are, recognising and taking responsibility for how we create our reality, fear, menopause in the mountains (hint: it kinda kicked her ass before she found the support she needed) and more.
Whether the adventure you seek is physical or spiritual, this episode is sure to leave you feeling ready to tackle some summits of your own!
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