Finding solace in the mountains after a traumatic brain injury upended my life, I reflect on my relationship with mountains in Alpinist magazine.
A traumatic brain injury fractured more than my skull, it fractured the autonomous, adventurous life I knew. The impact left me with minimal vision, life-threatening complications, and years of physical and emotional reckoning. Recovery was neither linear nor predictable. In its shadow, I searched for meaning and found it in the mountains.
My recount in Alpinist magazine is not only a story of survival. It’s about what the mountains gave me when everything else fell away. It highlights the strength of the human spirit and the ability to find purpose amid even life’s darkest crevasse.
Full Value – Alpinist 89 Spring 2025
I am grateful for the opportunity to share amid legends on the pages of Alpinst 89 with the support of Derek Franz, Abbey Collins and am thankful for Andres Schmidt’s deep and meaningful illustrations.
