Episode 029 - Mollie Hughes - the mindset to achieve great things

Inside Matters

The following is a conversation with Mollie Hughes, a British alpinist, world record holder, company director, and entrepreneur.

This podcast will appeal to anybody and everybody. It's very easy to listen to Mollie speak and you can kind of get a sense of what it takes to summit Everest and go to the South Pole. She broke the world record for becoming the youngest woman to climb both sides of Mount Everest and the youngest woman to ski solo to the South Pole. And now she's building an amazing adventure business, going around the world talking about her endeavours, and writing a book.

We explore how Mollie developed her mindset both before and during her incredible quests, she explains what it’s like to be caught in an 8-day whiteout on the South Pole and how affirmations helped keep her skis moving.

Everyone can get something practical from this conversation, especially when it comes to developing a mindset to enable you to achieve your goals and deal with adversity along the way.

Timestamps:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:33 Mollie’s background

00:05:00 Tackling extreme activities

00:08:59 Controlling fear

00:10:46 Deciding to climb Everest

00:11:34 Fitness to climb Everest

00:15:00 Costs to climb Everest

00:17:47 Kit required to climb Everest

00:20:14 Mollie’s first climb of Everest

00:23:29 Everest’s death zone

00:26:22 Hillary’s Step

00:32:51 Communication and food on Everest

00:35:06 Climbing north face of Everest

00:44:59 Human landmarks on Everest

00:52:31 Skiing to the South Pole

00:58:58 Dealing with isolation

01:07:16 Silence of the South Pole

01:09:20 Joining Ocean Vertical