Ep. 351: How Mountaineering Can Help Heal - Jane Parnell

Adventure Sports Podcast · Feb 22, 2018 · 54m

Mountaineering: Jane Parnell First Woman to Climb Colorado's 100, 200, and Nearly 300 Highest Peaks – Healing Rape Trauma and Family Issues Through Rockies Climbing Since 1970s, Mountaineering for Sanity and Coping, New Book Off Trail: Finding My Way Home in the Colorado Rockies.

Jane Parnell has been hiking and climbing the Rocky Mountains since the 1970's when she discovered how the mountains could heal her traumatic wounds. After being raped when she was twenty-one and with few people believing her claim, she met a mountaineer who introduced her to mountaineering. They would eventually be…