Adventure News: Vonn Rejected, 7 Nepali Women Eye 7 Summits, and a New Women’s Pro Cycling Team
Our curated picks of the week’s best news on women and adventure:
Vonn Rejected: Four-time World Cup ski champ Lindsey Vonn will have to settle for racing the ladies this year—her request to race in the men’s World Cup downhill race on November 24th at Lake Louise, Alberta was rejected earlier this week. According to a CBSNews.com article, FIS secretary general Sarah Lewis said, “It’s very clear. It’s called the men’s World Cup and the ladies’ World Cup. The men race the men’s World Cup and the ladies race the ladies’ World Cup. FIS and World Cup points are not transferrable from one circuit to another.” Others felt that a Vonn-against-the-guys race would have been a boon for the sport. “I saw it as a great opportunity to raise the profile of the sport by attracting interest from people who do not normally follow ski racing, particularly in North America,” said Alpine Canada president Max Gartner. “It would have provided a great platform to showcase our sport and the amazing athletic performances of our athletes.”
Nepali Women & the 7 Summits: A group of seven young women climbers from Nepal have committed to climbing the infamous Seven Summits. So far, the group has successfully scaled Mt. Everest, Mt. Kosciuszko, and Mt. Elbrus—and last week they announced their next expedition will be to Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa. Their goal is admirable: to advocate “education and empowerment to highlight the importance of girl’s education.” To help facilitate this, they’ve launched an organization called the Global Inclusive Adventure Organization, which focuses on the environmental and educational aspects of the tourism sector. “There are only 51 women out of the 300 climbers who have scaled these seven mountains,” team coordinator Shailie Basnet told Chinese news outlet Xinhua. “We want to break the gender stereotypes and set an example in the male-dominated climbing world that women are also capable.”
Finally…a Pro Women’s Cycling Team: Olympic gold medalist and Tour de France rider Bradley Wiggins has a thing for women cyclists. Namely, this winning Brit wants to see women pros be better served in the cycling arena. So, he’s helping to back the formation of a pro women’s team—the British-registered Dream Team Pro Cycling (DTPC) Honda Pro Cycling Team, according to an article in VeloNews. Riders will include Olympic track champions Laura Trott, Dani King and Joanna Rowsell plus Australia’s Rochelle Gilmore. “I would like to help form a women’s team,” Wiggins told London’s The Telegraph in September. “I have no idea what it would cost but it would be something I would be willing to put in some of my own money in to start up.” For more Wiggins women’s cycling love, check out this video.
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After a 10-year career as an award-winning New York City-based editor launching and redesigning urban, style-driven magazines, Erinn Morgan left her downtown Manhattan digs after September 11th, 2001, in search of a less encumbered, freelance lifestyle. A life-changing, two-year-long trek around the country in a motorhome eventually landed her in Durango, Colo., which she now calls home. Her writing has appeared in numerous— More about this author →
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