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For International Women's Day, 20 plus-size women hiked Mount Kilimanjaro. Each had a different reason and background, but they came together to take up space on the highest mountain in Africa. One goal? To normalize fat hiking around the world. Diandra Oliver brought along a recorder to share the seven-day trek with us.
Woman featured in this episode: Diandra Oliver, Autumn Stofflet, Eve, Sharon ‘Shazz’ Nderitu, and Deb Malkin
Hosted by Gale Straub
Sponsored by Merrell, ThirdLove, and GreenerWays Organic
In this episode you'll hear
- Why Diandra Oliver wanted to climb Mount Kilimanjaro
- How the stakes feel higher when society's expectations don't align
with your own
- Why reaching the summit was the main goal but why we might want to
re-think summit culture
- The challenges of finding gear
- The shared experiences and bonding found in group activities (and it
was typically harder for Diandra)
- The biodiversity of Mount Kilimanjaro
- Sounds and stories from the trail
- What acclimatization feels like
- Why self-care is important
- How standing on the top of the mountain felt
- Why sometimes a sign is not a summit
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Music is by Josh Woodward, Lee Rosevere and Kai Engel using a Creative Commons Attribution license. |
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