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MEC Envoy Amy Sutley recently celebrated a win at the Youth National Championships in Saanich, BC, where she was also awarded the Canada Cup, given to the best overall climber in each category. We caught up with Amy to chat about her recent success.

Success in the mountains is a relative thing. In the grand scheme of mountain adventure, just returning home safely is success enough. So, by all accounts, when Jasmin Caton, Kinley Aitken, and I returned home after 11 days in the Waddington Range, we had succeeded. But our success was multiplied because we’d climbed three different mountains and we had got along like a house on fire. For three women who’d never climbed together in the mountains, let alone at the crags surrounding our home in Squamish, this was miraculous.

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