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Scaling Everest! Danielle Proves Nothing Is Impossible!
Danielle Wolfson. 1st Israeli Women to Climb Mt. Everest.
One word best describes Danielle Wolfson....Chutzpah! In 2011, after a ski accident, Danielle was told she would never walk unassisted. In the hospital she told herself --- "I will show everybody, I will climb Everest." Did you know there is only a 5-day window in the entire year to try to reach the summit? Her Russian upbringing of grit and determination moved Danielle to set a goal of climbing 29,000 to the summit of Mt. Everest. Achieving this goal wasn't easy. She almost died along the way. Danielle saw many bodies of dead climbers on her to the summit. In May 2021, Danielle successfully reached the summit. Just 50 meters from the peak, she stepped over corpses lying frozen in their climbing gear. Her Russian discipline kept Danielle alive. She saw other people give up on Everest along the way but she didn't even consider she had an option to give up. "I needed to finish my mission and I would never stop even if I died on Everest." Danielle shares details of her harrowing journey to the summit and back down to the base camp of Mt. Everest. She wants everyone to go out and find their own version of Everest. Join me for this inspiring story; it’s the best almost twenty-one minutes you’ll spend today.
Please do three things:
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In this episode we cover:
- Danielle's message to the world is: "Find your own Everest and achieve your Everest because it's possible. I did it against all the odds. And you can too."
- Danielle believes: climbing Mount Everest is 80% mental and 20% physical and most people don't have the mental toughness to finish it.
- Her oxygen was running out, she knew she could rely only on her own wits. “Even if I had offered a million dollars, nobody would have given me oxygen."
- It's not enough to reach the Summit of Everest. It's not like a marathon or Ironman. You finish when you cross the line. No, you go to the summit, even cannot celebrate because the most dangerous part is going back down to base camp. People died when they are going down.
- Her next big expedition is in December to Antarctica’s Vinson Massif (4,892 meters; 16,050 feet) and then she’ll cross the South Pole.
Amazing Informative Links:
- https://www.timesofisrael.com/danielle-wolfson-becomes-1st-israeli-woman-to-reach-mount-everest-summit/
- https://www.timesofisrael.com/tel-aviv-lawyer-on-everest-hopes-to-become-first-israeli-woman-to-reach-summit/
- https://www.israel21c.org/how-chutzpah-beat-death
- https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/05/23/climber-danielle-wolfson-becomes-1st-israeli-woman-to-scale-everest/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcjwaDUn3fg
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmrY240YsM4
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Danielle Wolfson. 1st Israeli Women to Climb Mt. Everest.
One word best describes Danielle Wolfson....Chutzpah! In 2011, after a ski accident, Danielle was told she would never walk unassisted. In the hospital she told herself --- "I will show everybody, I will climb Everest." Did you know there is only a 5-day window in the entire year to try to reach the summit? Her Russian upbringing of grit and determination moved Danielle to set a goal of climbing 29,000 to the summit of Mt. Everest. Achieving this goal wasn't easy. She almost died along the way. Danielle saw many bodies of dead climbers on her to the summit. In May 2021, Danielle successfully reached the summit. Just 50 meters from the peak, she stepped over corpses lying frozen in their climbing gear. Her Russian discipline kept Danielle alive. She saw other people give up on Everest along the way but she didn't even consider she had an option to give up. "I needed to finish my mission and I would never stop even if I died on Everest." Danielle shares details of her harrowing journey to the summit and back down to the base camp of Mt. Everest. She wants everyone to go out and find their own version of Everest. Join me for this inspiring story; it’s the best almost twenty-one minutes you’ll spend today.
Please do three things:
- Subscribe to our podcast through your favorite platform.
- Share this episode with a few of your friends today.
- Visit our website at http://findinginspiration.life
In this episode we cover:
- Danielle's message to the world is: "Find your own Everest and achieve your Everest because it's possible. I did it against all the odds. And you can too."
- Danielle believes: climbing Mount Everest is 80% mental and 20% physical and most people don't have the mental toughness to finish it.
- Her oxygen was running out, she knew she could rely only on her own wits. “Even if I had offered a million dollars, nobody would have given me oxygen."
- It's not enough to reach the Summit of Everest. It's not like a marathon or Ironman. You finish when you cross the line. No, you go to the summit, even cannot celebrate because the most dangerous part is going back down to base camp. People died when they are going down.
- Her next big expedition is in December to Antarctica’s Vinson Massif (4,892 meters; 16,050 feet) and then she’ll cross the South Pole.
Amazing Informative Links:
- https://www.timesofisrael.com/danielle-wolfson-becomes-1st-israeli-woman-to-reach-mount-everest-summit/
- https://www.timesofisrael.com/tel-aviv-lawyer-on-everest-hopes-to-become-first-israeli-woman-to-reach-summit/
- https://www.israel21c.org/how-chutzpah-beat-death
- https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/05/23/climber-danielle-wolfson-becomes-1st-israeli-woman-to-scale-everest/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcjwaDUn3fg
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmrY240YsM4