In March, Susan Pieper set a goal most people would talk themselves out of: climb four 6,000-meter mountains, and 60,000 feet of vertical, before she turns 61. She didn't overthink it. She said she loved the audacity of it — and then went and did something about it. By May, that goal had already taken her to Ecuador, where she summited Cotopaxi at 19,347 feet, then stood on the summit of Chimborazo at 20,548 feet. She's logged over 18,000 feet of vertical so far between those climbs and her training ascents — she is currently hiking Walker's Haute Route, with plenty of mountain still ahead of her. In this episode of Try and Keep Up, Susan joins me to talk about what it actually takes to set a goal this big at this stage of life, why audacity itself can be the whole motivation, and what she's learned about herself somewhere above 19,000 feet. If you've ever had a goal that felt a little too big to say out loud — this conversation might be exactly the push you need.
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