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Susan Purvis

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Susan Purvis saves lives and teaches others to do the same.

Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Modern Love Column.

Susan is a Lead Instructor with Wilderness Medical Associates and the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education (AIARE). She is a professional member of the American Avalanche Association (AAA), the Explorers Club, and a Wilderness Medical Society member.

Susan’s love for adventure and medicine has taken her to the hottest, coldest, and highest places on earth: Ethiopia, Antarctica, and Nepal. As a wilderness medicine expert and extraordinary speaker, Susan has worked on film sets for National Geographic Channel, truTV, appeared on the science documentary, The Hottest Place on Earth, aired on the BBC and Susan Purvis saves lives and teaches others to do the same.

Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Modern Love Column.

Susan is a Lead Instructor with Wilderness Medical Associates and the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education (AIARE). She is a professional member of the American Avalanche Association (AAA), the Explorers Club, and a Wilderness Medical Society member.

Susan’s love for adventure and medicine has taken her to the hottest, coldest, and highest places on earth: Ethiopia, Antarctica, and Nepal. As a wilderness medicine expert and extraordinary speaker, Susan has worked on film sets for National Geographic Channel, truTV, appeared on the science documentary, The Hottest Place on Earth, aired on the BBC and Discovery. She’s been featured or quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, on CNN, television, numerous magazines, and newspaper articles.

Since 1998, Susan has owned and operated Crested Butte Outdoors International, based in Whitefish, Montana (www.cboutdoors.com). Her mission is to teach students how to think critically in unconventional settings.

An explorer by passion, Susan combines wilderness medicine, desert survival, exploration geology, and K-9 search and rescue to land jobs on all seven continents. She teaches high altitude medicine for the local Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Everest Guides. Susan has served as a medic at a remote field camp and ice breaker in Antarctica, explored for gold in the Dominican Republic and produced a documentary in the Amazon jungle. Susan also spent a decade working at an urgent care ski clinic in Crested Butte where she also worked as a professional ski patroller, guide, K-9 avalanche expert and SAR member. Susan was named a brand Ambassador for Marmot and received Congressional Recognition for her role in avalanche search and rescue.

When Susan is not teaching you can find her boating on the cold, clear rivers in northern Montana or in search of the last snow powder stash. Go Find is her first book. www.susanpurvis.com ...more

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K9 Search and Rescue at 30,000 Feet

��How come it��s easier for me to jump out of the side of a helicopter at 13,000 feet with my avalanche dog to look for a dead guy than it is to talk to my husband about our relationship?��

I��m over two gin and tonics into my flight when I confess those words to a middle-aged Latino man sitting next to me inside the dimly lit cabin of the 747. I didn��t know him from Adam. Three-quarters of t

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“If we want to work, I’m gonna have to go knock on a few doors. I need to be like Jehovah’s Witnesses or the Amway lady. Who would have thought I’d have to go sell myself and my dog?”
― Susan Purvis, Go Find: My Journey to Find the Lost—and Myself

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“Most people who are lost can’t let themselves see that they’re lost, don’t want to hear about it or feel it. And when they deny reality, they keep themselves from learning from it, from solving the problem that’s right in front of them.”
― Susan Purvis, Go Find: My Journey to Find the Lost—and Myself

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“Hi. My name is Sue. Have some Gu, Let me put this under you.

IF you ask anyone who has ever taken a wilderness medicine course from me, this is how they remember me. This is what we say to someone we find injured or lost in the backcountry. Introduce yourself, add sugars and insulation to the patient.”
― Susan Purvis, Go Find: My Journey to Find the Lost—and Myself

tags: animals, avalanche, dogs, memoir, relationships, search-and-rescue, snow, wilderness

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