5. Australasia or Meganesia
• Country
– Australia
– Irian Jaya
• Mountain
– Mt. Kosiusko
– Carstensz Pyramid
• Height
– 7,310 feet
– 16,023 feet
6. What made me want to
pursue a mountaineering
career?
7. What make me want to pursue a
mountaineering career?
My personal jigsaw puzzle: to
offer make the big picture
Step by step process
Vision
8. My personal jigsaw puzzle: to
offer make the big picture
Childhood
Classic “Heidi”
Natural Athletic Talent
Challenge and Adventure
Parents
Deaf Role Models and Deaf Culture
10. Classic “Heidi”
• Book and film is famous
classic “Heidi”
• Actress - Shirley Temple
acting out “Heidi” in the
1950’s film.
• Influence of my “name”
• Switzerland
12. Natural Athletic Talent
• Involvement in the
Deaflympics: 1969
and 1973
• Variety of volleyball
teams and Track
and Field teams in
Junior High
School, High
School, and
University
13. Challenge and Adventure
• My passion: mental and
physical challenges and
adventure!
Heidi - Outward Bound student
Heidi and Sally crossed United States by
bicycle when we were college students.
15. Deaf Role Models and Deaf Culture
• Dr. Larry Newman, former
Math teacher and former
NAD President
• “DO IT”
• Deaf Culture and other
role models
16. Step By Step Process
The steps:
bottom line: experience through Backpack trips
taking the courses
• Outward Bound School
• Basic Mountain Training Course
• Glacier Travel and Ice Climbing
gaining experience
• member of Sierra Club
training
• biking and running on the hill, carry a load on
the hill,plus more exercises
17. Vision
• Why not!
– In 1983 Dick Bass and
Frank Wells set out on the
ultimate peakbaggers’
odyssey: to climb the
highest point on every
continent.
• Goal:
– Mt. Everest
– Seven Summits
– oldest woman
18. Record of the oldest Person
– Yuichiro Miura, a 75 year old Japan, has become the
oldest climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
– Tame Watanobe, a 63 year old Japanese woman, has
become the oldest woman climber to reach the summit
of Mount Everest.
19. Concept of what mountaineering is
like? Including expedition trips :
Mountaineering and Climbing
Slides of Mountaineering style
75. Summary
• Goal:
– determination to finish the task at hand
– not easy due to money and resource
• Commercial Expedition fees (only land costs):
– Mt. Vinson $34,450
– Carstensz Pyramind $18,000
– Aconcagua $ 4,000
– Mt. Everest $65,000-85,000 (for South Col. Route) lots of sacrifices!
• Goal to complete Seven Summits:
– four more to go
» Mt. Vinson December 2010
» Carstensz Pyramind September-October 2011
» Aconcagua February 2012
» Mt. Everest March-May 2013
76. Summary
• Goal:
– lots of sacrifices!
“What do you love doing?”
“Adventure” I answered. “So where is
the most adventurous place to do what
you love, be challenged?”
Heidi Zimmer
Deaf Woman Mountaineer/Adventurer
77. Achievement
• Commitment:
– Keep my goal
– Follow your dream
– Don’t let anyone tell you it is impossible; instead work hard and take
advantage of opportunity
– NEVER GIVE UP
• Possibility:
– Use all the possibilities open to you now
• Take risk, be creative, solve problems, be willing to try different ways even if
they are uncomfortable
• Make mistakes, continue to evolve and grow
78. Achievement
• Action:
– Do it
• Quality of Life:
– PAH! Completing the “big four” - commitment, possibility,
action, and quality of life
– Victory
– Joy/Happiness
– FULFILLMENT
79. Summary
“The main obstacle to progress in our
community is the Deaf, Hard of
Hearing, and Deaf-Blind people who
want to change everything..or nothing.”
Heidi Zimmer
Deaf Woman Mountaineer/Adventurer
