A trip to Kenya showed the speaker girls missing school because they couldn't afford menstrual products. That shattered her bubble in Park City and rewired why she climbs mountains: not for herself, but as a symbol of progress for people without opportunity.
So I think when you set goals, it's really important to have the why for yourself, but then to also make the why bigger than you and for other people. Because I think we'll let ourselves down. What happened very early on in the journey was I went to Kenya, Africa, and women don't have the same rights that we do in the United States. And I learned about period poverty and how these women wouldn't go to school for a week because they'd have their period, and then all these things that you didn't even know exist because I live in this little bubble in Park City, Utah. Then I met some of these in, and they would die for the position I was in. All of a sudden, I wasn't climbing for me. I was climbing for progress. Take the next step. When you do the next thing, possibility opens up. And so when I was climbing that mountain, it wasn't even about me. It was about showing we have to go into the unknown. We have to challenge the stereotypes. That's what it looks like, is struggle and confusion and doubt and like questioning your sanity.
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