Melissa Arnot

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Melissa Arnot Reid (born December 18, 1983) [1] is an American mountaineer. She has climbed to the summit of Mount Everest six times. [2] [3]

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Life and career

Arnot was raised just outside Glacier National Park in Whitefish, Montana. After college, she began living out of her car to save money and climb mountains. She first climbed Mount Rainier in 2001 and called it a "watershed moment". Arnot began teaching wilderness medicine in 2002 and began guiding on Mount Rainier with Rainier Mountaineering, Inc. in 2004. By 2006 she was a lead guide. [4]

Since 2001, she has summited Rainier more than 90 times. She is a certified Wilderness EMT and teaches Wilderness EMT courses for Remote Medical International. [5]

In 2008, she joined Jeff Dossett and David Morton on the Everest Team Inspi(RED) to promote HIV/AIDS awareness and Microsoft and Dell products supporting Product Red. [6]

In 2010, she led a celebrity climb up Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness for clean water access. [7] The effort, Summit on the Summit, included actors Emile Hirsch, Jessica Biel and Isabel Lucas, musicians Kenna, Lupe Fiasco and Santigold, as well as various scientists and activists, and aired as an MTV special. [8]

In 2013, she helped defuse an assault between three European climbers and a group of a hundred Sherpas; see Mount Everest in 2013.

Her Everest summit attempts in 2014 and 2015 were disrupted by avalanches on Mount Everest. [2]

In 2016, she became the second American woman to summit Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen and the first that survived the descent having summited without supplementary oxygen; another American woman Francys Arsentiev reached the summit without supplementary oxygen in 1998 but died during the descent. [9]

She is currently sponsored by Eddie Bauer and was one of the original six mountain guides, also including Peter Whittaker, Ed Viesturs, Dave Hahn, Seth Waterfall and Chad Peele, who developed products for the 'First Ascent' brand and continues to participate in product development and testing. [10] She is also sponsored by Whittaker Mountaineering, a retail store based in Ashford, Washington. [11]

Mountain ascents

Arnot’s notable big mountain ascents include:

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  2. 1 2 Eun Kyung Kim (2015-04-21). "Melissa Arnot, history-seeking Everest climber, reveals training plan". TODAY.com. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
  3. 1 2 Mount Everest: American Woman Summits Without Supplemental O2
  4. ↑ "Melissa Arnot profile". Whittaker Mountaineering. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
  5. ↑ "Melissa Arnot, WEMT, Instructor". Remote Medical International. Archived from the original on December 2, 2011. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
  6. ↑ Warnick, Jennifer. "Life After Everest Is a Breeze". Join (RED). Archived from the original on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
  7. ↑ "Melissa Arnot". Summit on the Summit. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
  8. ↑ Kaufman, Gil. "Kenna, Summit On The Summit Team Reach Top Of Kilimanjaro". MTV. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
  9. ↑ Landers, Rich. "Melissa Arnot climbs into Mount Everest record book | The Spokesman-Review". Spokesman.com. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
  10. ↑ "Guide Built". Eddie Bauer. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
  11. ↑ "The Whittaker Mountaineering Guide Team" . Retrieved 4 May 2012.
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