Melissa Arnot

Melissa Arnot is an American Mountaineer. She is the first American woman to summit Mt. Everest three times.^[1]

Arnot was raised just outside Glacier National Park in Whitefish, Montana. After college, Arnot began living out of her car to save money and climb mountains. Arnot first climbed Mt. Rainier in 2001 and called it a “watershed moment.” Melissa began teaching wilderness medicine in 2002 and began guiding on Mt. Rainier with Rainier Mountaineering, Inc. in 2004. By 2006 she was a lead guide. ^[2] Since 2001, she has summited Rainier more than 70 times. She also a certified Wilderness EMT and teaches Wilderness EMT courses for Remote Medical International.^[3]

In 2008, she joined Jeff Dossett and David Morton on the Everest Team Inspi(RED) to promote HIV/AIDs awareness and Microsoft and Dell products supporting Product Red.^[4]

In 2010, she led a celebrity climb up Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise awareness for clean water access.^[5] The effort, called Summit on the Summit, included actors Emile Hirsch, Jessica Biel and Isabel Lucas, musicians Kenna, Lupe Fiasco and Santigold, and a group of scientists and activists and aired as an MTV special.^[6]

She is currently sponsored by Eddie Bauer and was one of the original six mountain guides, also including Peter Whittaker, Ed Viesturs, Dave Hahn, Seth Waterfall and Chad Peele, who developed products for the First Ascent brand and continues to participate in product development and testing.^[7]

Arnot’s notable big mountain ascents include:

• 73 summits of Mt. Rainier (14,410')
• 1 expedition on Mt. McKinley (20,320')
• 2 Expeditions on Cotopaxi, Ecuador (19,348')
• 2 Expeditions on Cayambe, Ecuador (18,997')
• 2 Expeditions to Aconcagua, Argentina (22,841')
• 3 Summits of Mt. Everest, South Col (29,035')^[8]

References

1. ^ "Melissa Arnot, WEMT, Instructor". Remote Medical International. http://www.remotemedical.com/About-Us/WEMT-Melissa-Arnot. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 
2. ^ "Melissa Arnot". Whittaker Mountaineering. http://www.whittakermountaineering.com/index.php?&gigpag=melissa_arnot. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 
3. ^ "Melissa Arnot, WEMT, Instructor". Remote Medical International. http://www.remotemedical.com/About-Us/WEMT-Melissa-Arnot. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 
4. ^ Warnick, Jennifer. "Life After Everest Is a Breeze". Join (RED). http://blog.joinred.com/2008/09/life-after-everest-is-breeze.html. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 
5. ^ "Melissa Arnot". Summit on the Summit. http://summitonthesummit.com/climb.html#/climber-bios-melissa. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 
6. ^ Kaufman, Gil. "Kenna, Summit On The Summit Team Reach Top Of Kilimanjaro". MTV. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1629516/summit-on-summit-team-tops-kilimanjaro.jhtml. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 
7. ^ "Guide Built". Eddie Bauer. http://www.eddiebauer.com/EB/First-Ascent/Guide-Built/index.cat. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 
8. ^ "Melissa Arnot". RMI Expeditions. http://www.rmiguides.com/about/guides/melissa-arnot. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 

External links

• First Ascent Team

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