Caroline Gleich is a professional ski mountaineer and adventurer based in Park City, UT. She’s graced the cover of Powder, Backcountry & Ski Magazines and appeared in a ski films. But beyond being an athlete, Caroline uses her voice to advocate for social and environmental causes to bring awareness to issues like climate change, clean air, gender equality and cyber harassment.

Caroline’s goal is to inspire people to get outside, live a healthy, active lifestyle and protect the places we love to play. There may not be anyone better for the job. Caroline shares so much with us in this episode from what it means to use your voice for change to how to ignore your naysayers & believe in your wildest dreams.

In this episode we explore:

What compels Caroline to use her platform as a professional skier for advocacy around climate change & equality

How Caroline reconciles the inherent risk of being in the backcountry after experiencing loss

Caroline’s decision to climb Everest without an ACL and the power of taking life & all its adventures one step at a time

How Caroline found her power & agency throughout an ongoing cyber-bullying attack

A few simple steps to becoming a citizen activist

Tweetables:

“I just felt like when I was in the wild, I could be my real self. There’s something so freeing about being outside.”

“As a female athlete, we’ve never been able to have that kind of platform before. Where we’ve been able to tell our stories the way we want to tell them in real time. I’m really grateful for the power of social media because it’s allowed me to take be able to take people along on my career in a way that wasn’t accessible to us before.”

”You can’t be what you can’t see.”

“You have to be so careful about the voices you allow in your head.”

Resources:

Follow Caroline on Instagram, Twitter & Facebook!

Learn more about ProtectOurWinters and how you can support!

Listen to the podcast Drilled

Buy the book Merchants of Doubt

Head to the Patagonia Action Works platform to discover and connect with environmental action groups and get involved with the work they do

Check out Caroline on the web!