📖 Blending Mountains + Medicine into a Memoir: Tap Dancing on Everest with Grit Lit Featured Author Mimi Zieman

Mimi was a third-year medical student when she signed on as the sole medical officer and only woman on a four-climber expedition attempting the east face of Everest from Tibet (a route that had only been climbed once before).If you love what Mimi has to say, her memoir was the featured book in our last winter Grit Lit box. Join Grit Lit now and you'll get our welcome box plus the next quarterly box this summer. Proceeds fund wilderness scholarships for girls and women.Mimi Zieman is a physician, writer, and the 2025 Georgia Author of the Year for her memoir Tap Dancing on Everest, also selected as the Best Memoir of 2024 by the American Writing Awards. Mimi and Angie talk about:Training to be the sole medical officer on an Everest expedition while still a third-year med studentSolo backpacking in Nepal in a pre-internet eraWhy Mimi became an OB/GYN after a bad teenage appointmentThe beauty and challenge of being the sole woman on an Himalayan expeditionWhat menstruating adventurers should know before heading into the backcountryAdvice for women who want to write a book, and behind the scenes of writing a vulnerable memoir📚 Join Grit Lit — Tap Dancing on Everest was in last winter's box!Check out these resources:📖 Tap Dancing on Everest by Mimi Zieman🌐 mimiziemanmd.com📱 Mimi on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok✏️ Medicine, Mountains, & More on Substack➡️ The Cairn Project on IG✨ The Cairn Project's newsletter🥾 Become a Trailblazer📅 Summit Scholarship FoundationLike this episode? Leave a 5-star rating and review on your podcast app!You can help us close the gender gap outdoors and beyond⁠⁠⁠Become a Trailblazer⁠⁠⁠. Your Adventure Fundraiser makes wilderness experiences possible for girls and women.Check out the⁠⁠⁠ Summit Scholarship Foundation⁠⁠⁠.Share this episode with a woman in your life who has a wild business idea she hasn't acted on yet.Make sure you subscribe to the See Her Outside Podcast so you don't miss a story!⁠⁠⁠Follow on Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe on Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠Listen on:⁠⁠⁠ Amazon⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠⁠ Pocket Casts⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠⁠ iHeartRadio⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠⁠ other platforms⁠⁠⁠