Vault Classic: Olga Dobranowski On Climbing Big Mountains While Balancing Career And Family

In this vault classic episode, Scott Johnston is joined by Olga Dobranowski. Olga is a medical doctor, based out of Colorado, who has been drawn to the mountains her entire life and tackled many impressive mountain goals.

Here are some of the topics discussed:

• growing up and starting climbing in Poland
• Polish climbing history
• Olga’s early climbing days in Poland and throughout Europe
• moving to the U.S.A., and settling in Colorado
• the evolution of Olga’s training
• orchestrating success on Aconcagua with a busy lifestyle
• pre-acclimatization
• light and fast
• self-assessment of altitude sickness
• continued success on a solo climb of Denali
• Olga’s base, aerobic, and specific training
• hypoxic tents and other techniques for pre-acclimatization
• physiological effects of altitude.