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Nancy Pfeiffer

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in Riverton Wyoming, The United States

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As a lifelong adventurer and outdoor educator, Nancy Pfeiffer has traveled from
Antarctica to the Arctic Ocean. Life as a mountaineering guide has given her the opportunity to
experience the world’s highest summits, yet it is the landscapes and cultures encountered along the
way that intrigue her most.Her published works range from poetry to scientific research, and explore
subjects from the joys and frustrations of building a house as a single woman to mountaineering for
paraplegics. As a novice horsewoman, Nancy took off across Patagonia alone on horseback. Over the
next two decades and three thousand kilometers of rugged horse trail, the hospitable people who live
there took her in, and Patagonia slipped silently into her soul. Nancy now lives ...more

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Spirited Waters: Soloing South Through the Inside Passage

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“The next day, after a long, hard, circuitous day in the saddle, I camped a vertical quarter mile awayat the bottom of the same cliff. I was beginning to suspect that progress, like time,
was defined differently in Patagonia.”
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