
A Professional Athlete’s Battle with Mental Illness
Outside Podcast
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Skiing of Palisades
Drew and his partner were able to make it to the top, where they made a plan. The safest choice and quickest evacuation route was to first climb to the summit and descend a different side of the mountain. Drew's partner would ski down as quickly as possible, get ski patrol and call nine one one. Druodski down slowly and not risk further injury. And so he descended by himself down thousands of vertical feet to the parking lot at the base of mount hood. When he arrived, his partner was still trying to secure help. "I just yelled help into a parking lot full of people probably just chilling, drinking some bears, grilling up some dogs on a spring ski day
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