Susan Purvis

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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
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Susan Purvis I go for a ski, a bike, a hike or pick weeds and chew on what is holding me back. Eventually, the pacing or the activity will help solve my problem.
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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

“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

“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

“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

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