Snohomish mountaineer won't let rheumatoid arthritis slow her
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On July 14, 2017, Taryn Simpson posted the following message to her Facebook page:
“By 2020 I will summit Mount Rainier. Someone hold me to this.”
Almost exactly two years to the day Simpson found herself at 14,000 feet, staring down into Rainier’s massive snowed-in crater, the sunlit silhouette of the Cascades stretching off into the distance. And between moments of composing herself and trying to catch her breath, she reflected on her challenges with rheumatoid arthritis and the journey that led her to this moment of triumph over the genetic condition.
“I was just so happy and grateful,” Simpson said. “There was this overwhelming pride, and this thought that, ‘I have to do more of this.’”
The Snohomish native transformed her condition from something that cut short her childhood athletic ambitions into an incentive for pursuing a new one: mountaineering. And now she’s conquering Washington State’s highest peaks one by one.
https://www.heraldnet.com/sports/snohomish-mountaineer-wont-let-rheumatoid-arthritis-slow-her/
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