- Kit DesLauriers
Kit DesLauriers (b 1969) is a champion American skier.
DesLauriers graduated from the
University of Arizona with a degree in environmental political science. She is a two-time women's worldfreeskiing champion, winning back-to-back titles in 2004 and 2005 after only two years of competition. In August 2005, she won the women's division of the Rendezvous Hill Climb to the top of theJackson Hole Mountain Resort .DesLauriers is the first woman to climb and ski
Mount Aspiring inNew Zealand , and the first woman and first American to ski from the summit ofMount Everest . She is only the third woman to climb and skiGrand Teton inWyoming . She is a certified Wildnerness Emergency Medical Technician, a Telluride Professional Ski Patroller, a Rescue 3 International low to high angle rope rescue instructor, a Helicopter Rescue Technician, and volunteers with Search and Rescue.At 11 a.m. on
October 18 ,2006 , DesLauriers pushed off of the summit ofMount Everest and made history as the first person to ski from the summit of the highest mountain on all seven continents. Her quest began in May 2004, when she became the first American woman to climb and ski from the summit of the highest peak in America --Mount McKinley , inAlaska . This was followed in 2005 with a trek from ofMount Elbrus inRussia , Europe's highest peak, a descent fromMount Kosciuszko , the highest mountain in Australia,Vinson Massif , the highest peak onAntarctica , andAconcagua ,Argentina , the highest peak in South America. In spring 2006 she climbedMount Kilimanjaro ,Africa 's highest mountain.DesLauriers and her husband,
Rob Deslauriers , met in 1999 while on a mountaineering trip toMount Belukha inSiberia . The couple live inTeton Village, Wyoming , where she is a stone mason and runs landscape design company Rockit Corporation. DesLauriers also coaches other women in skiing, and runs the "Turn It Up Women's Ski Camps."ources
* [http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2005-11-16-skiing-couple-outdoors_x.htm USA Today 2005 Article]
* [http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/article.php?art_id=1035&sesid=9fceef4fa75dbaf61c6f7f00e0e3adb7]External links
* [http://kitdski.com/ Kit DesLaurier Official Site]
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