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Susan Oakey-Baker is a teacher, guide, painter and a writer and holds degrees in French literature and Language Education. She has twenty years of outdoor experience, having spent time ski touring, mountaineering, rock climbing, canoeing, kayaking, whitewater rafting and biking all over the world. She has worked as a nationally certified hiking guide in Africa, Nepal and North America and has guided more than 100 people, ranging in age from sixteen to eighty-five, to the top of Africa’s highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, for the Alzheimer Society of British Columbia.
Her photographs and writing have been published in Pique magazine, the Alpine Club of Canada Gazette and the Canadian Alpine Journal. She grew up in Vancouver and now lives in Wh ...more

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Finding Jim

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“You don’t get over grief, you just get more used to it.”
― Susan Oakey-Baker, Finding Jim

tags: grief-beyond-belief, strength-through-adversity

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“I didn’t say a word. He wouldn’t be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.”
― Susan Oakey-Baker, Finding Jim

tags: adventure-travel, courage-to-be-oneself, grief-inspirational, love-story, risk-taking, vulnerability, whole-heart, wilderness

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“Reaching the summit of K2 was an incredible experience, but I would trade it in a heartbeat to have Dan back.”
― Susan Oakey-Baker, Finding Jim

tags: bittersweet, pain, risk-taking

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“I didn’t say a word. He wouldn’t be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.”
― Susan Oakey-Baker, Finding Jim

tags: adventure-travel, courage-to-be-oneself, grief-inspirational, love-story, risk-taking, vulnerability, whole-heart, wilderness

4 likes

“You don’t get over grief, you just get more used to it.”
― Susan Oakey-Baker, Finding Jim

tags: grief-beyond-belief, strength-through-adversity

5 likes

“Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you cannot have an opinion.”
― Susan Oakey-Baker, Finding Jim

tags: self-worth

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“Mountaineers are one of the few groups to celebrate before the finish line. More mountaineers die on the descent than on the ascent.”
― Susan Oakey-Baker, Finding Jim

tags: mountaineering, risk

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“Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. “It’s the closest I’ve ever felt to dying.”
― Susan Oakey-Baker, Finding Jim

tags: advenuture, fear-of-death, love, risk, vulnerability

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