Jenn Drummond turned around on K2 instead of summiting when her team faced problems. She chose her teammates' safety over the peak, and sees it as teaching her kids that people matter more than personal achievement.
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lean into when things get hard or don't go our way, which that climb didn't go my way. And my why was my kids are watching, right? It's easy to succeed. It's easy to wave our flag at the top of the mountain and said, here I am, here's what I achieved. Rah, rah, rah. It is hard to wave our flag when we're defeated and we have to turn around and we have to say like, I didn't make it. I messed up. I did this wrong. But it's important to do so because that's the reality of all of our pursuits. And so with my kids watching, you know, they asked like, Mom, why didn't you summit? I said, you know, I elected to turn around. I put people over peaks. My team had an issue. I had the choice to go up. I said, I'm not. I'm gonna go take care of my team. And when you live your life, you're gonna be faced with decisions on are you gonna put the mountain or the people in front of you? And I sure hope you're a person that puts people over peaks. And so I had to live that message for them to see that message.