ABOUT THIS EVENT
Livestreamed and In-Person
Meet Kimmy Fasani
Kimmy Fasani, a professional snowboarder and survivor of stage three breast cancer, shares her profound connection to the outdoors and the ways it has shaped her resilience. A Truckee, Ca native who resides in Mammoth lakes with her husband Chris Benchetler will discuss how her personal life’s peaks and valleys—losing both parents to cancer, enduring childhood abuse, facing her own health battle, while balancing motherhood and her career—Kimmy has found the mountains to be both a sanctuary and a teacher. Climbing and riding down these towering peaks mirror her personal journey: the climb symbolizing struggle and perseverance, and the descent representing a metamorphosis of release, acceptance, and joy.
"Outside Ourselves: How Nature Conditions Us for Life’s Hardships"
Kimmy will reflect on how nature’s challenges have honed her ability to face life’s hardships head-on. From braving snow-covered peaks to navigating emotional valleys, she explains how the lessons learned outdoors—patience, determination, and trust in the process—have helped her find strength in adversity. Outside Ourselves is a testament to how the wilderness can condition us not only physically but emotionally, offering tools to grow beyond our limits and live with greater purpose and gratitude.
Kimmy’s Nonprofit Beneficiary: Tahoe Waterman Foundation
The Tahoe Waterman Foundation is dedicated to helping people of all ages and abilities experience the healing power of water through paddle sports. The Tahoe Waterman Foundation provides ”pathways for personal growth and recovery for youth or adults with cognitive, sensory, mental health, and physical disabilities through simple but powerful paddle sports experiences and both time on and time in Lake Tahoe’s pure blue water.”
MORE ABOUT THE ALPENGLOW SPORTS WINTER SPEAKER SERIES
The Poetry Program at the Community of Writers is founded on the belief that when poets gather in a community to write new poems, each poet may well break through old habits and write something stronger and truer than before. To help this happen we work together to create an atmosphere in which everyone might feel free to try anything. In the mornings we meet in workshops to read to each other the work of the previous twenty-four hours; each participant also has an opportunity to work with each staff poet. In the late afternoons we gather for a conversation about some aspect of craft. On several afternoons staff poets hold brief individual conferences. Director: Brenda Hillman.
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