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In June of 2016, 10 months after getting the green

Giselle’s (@gisellecesin) training focused on pr

Giselle’s (@gisellecesin) training focused on preparing her for long, hard days on mountain expeditions by practicing hiking with a heavy pack and running for multiple hours, alongside traditional strength training. Every #UphillAthlete workout was carefully tailored to Giselle’s needs and abilities, pushing her limits without going too far and injuring her or setting her back.

To read more about Giselle’s monumental effort, check the link in our bio.

Giselle Cesin (@gisellecesin) traveled a long and

Giselle Cesin (@gisellecesin) traveled a long and committed road on her path to a successful Denali ascent, inspired by the first Venezuelans to climb Mt. Everest’s summit in 2001. Her aspirations to conquer the world’s most challenging climbs were put on hold even longer by a major heart surgery, which prevented her from pursuing high-altitude mountaineering for several years. In 2015, her doctor finally confirmed her recovery was complete enough to begin the training regimen designed by #UphillAthlete.

Giselle is a lifelong athlete - a veteran marathoner, triathlete, and ironman - but the geography of her home country (Venezuela) didn’t offer much in the way of mountaineering challenges.

“It’s completely different from training for a marathon. When you’re training for a mountain, you’ve got to train to be able to go on and on and on, and not just for a period of 3 hours.”

Giselle’s training focused on preparing her for long, hard days on mountain expeditions by practicing hiking with a heavy pack and running for multiple hours, alongside traditional strength training. Every workout was carefully tailored to Giselle’s needs and abilities, pushing her limits without going too far and injuring her or setting her back.

Critically, Giselle was able to train for big mountain objectives without having access to them. If we are committed to training and disciplined to train well, we can reach our goals no matter where we happen to live.

In June of 2016, 10 months after getting the green light from her doctor to start high-altitude training (post heart surgery), Giselle started her ascent of Denali. Braving hostile weather conditions and 12-hour climbs from one camp to the next, it took her 13 days to reach the summit and unfurl the Venezuelan flag to mark her successs. She was the first Venezuelan woman to summit Denali, an achievement paralleling the climbers that inspired her as a teenager.

To read more about Giselle’s monumental effort, check the link in our bio.

Steve House ( @stevehouse10 ), co-founder of #Uphi

Steve House ( @stevehouse10 ), co-founder of #UphillAthlete, asked one of his most defining questions of his life:

How do we give back to the mountain community?

Steve put in a lot of effort and work into becoming an elite level alpinist. At the height of his career, Steve had a severe accident culminating in a near-death experience.

Steve explains how deciding to pull back from elite climbing was one of the most challenging decisions he has ever made. However, by no longer pursuing the passion that he dedicated so much of his time to, he opened up the opportunity to give back to the mountain community and start a family.

In a podcast with @AlexHonnold, Steve House gives us incredible insight into his near-death experience on the face of Mount Temple. Steve shares how he felt at that moment and his thoughts as he lay dying influenced his decisions to step away from elite climbing.

What, at first, was a challenging crisis turned out to be an opportunity. Steve had learned so much during his tenure as a sponsored climber that he and Scott Johnston wrote their first book and began the coaching and training organization known as Uphill Athlete.

Uphill Athlete is now in its 7th year. And provides training plans and training services to people from all walks of life, with a special emphasis on personal development through mountain sports.

Listen to the @climbinggold episode here: https://www.climbinggold.com/episodes/walking-away or check the link in our bio

Setting off on mountain objectives can be a foray into the unknown, and committing to this journey takes commitment, discipline, curiosity, and education. Mountain athletes seek incredible physical and mental challenges and many of you put yourself through a training process that may (or may not) culminate in a summit or climbing goal. The process is what is most important.

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