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Explorando los límites | Karla Wheelock | TEDxYouth@ColegioAtid


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Good Morning

in 1953 a team was getting ready to climb

The highest mountain in the world

many people questioned the why

climb the everest

if there had already been 33 years of attempts

failed to achieve the promotion this

mountain they asked the leader of the

expedition that to climb the

everest and he replied that there is no

altitude or depth that the spirit

of a man guided by a spirit

superior can not reach

he did not say it was prudent simply

he said it was possible

the adventures the explorers we

we are all and the adventures are in

any place

adventures personally the

I found on the mountain and for more

25 years old

the mountain taught me certain aspects

important to live that our

adventure in life the adaptation the

willingness to explore knowledge of the

nature the transformation the unit

regeneration and attitude as

we are going up to high mountains

we learn that there is up after

the 7,500 meters is known as the

area of death

the percentage of oxygen decreases what

what does it require of us that we

we adapt we have to educate our

body demanding him to learn to

change the metabolism to know how

compensate for the lack of oxygen there

above

I started climbing up

small mountains and then I started to

climb to the volcanoes higher and higher

five civilians and six thousand is 7,000 is

to be able to access this that is known

as the area of death in the process

of adaptation

I learned that the strength of a

mountaineer is missing

necessarily in your muscles and for

that they already realized that they are not

the muscles is precisely in

our ability to adapt that does not

I said so, I said it to Darwin

long time

the species that survive are not the

the strongest the fastest or the

the larger the fastest is

adapt to change and for that it would be

educate our body to take more

liquid demand and the body begins to

create memory that we know

as acclimatization in that process of

to demand from my body

I learned here there are certain foods that

nourishes us foods that allow us to

our our blood can over

produce more rapidly globules

reds what will strengthen us in the

in altitude and you learn to say yes

to what nourishes you and that you do not duck but

I also learned that not only

you nourish what you eat but also what

you think and we rarely do diets

mentally and I started to put aside

all those comments that I

they said is not for you are you crazy for

do you want to climb the mountain that

leave it for strong men and

brave and that’s when it comes in

that adventure will but for

to be able to take that first step that

requires to do the exercise of the

will first that nothing has to

be clear about what you want what you love

what you are looking for and once you have it

Of course, you have to know how to weigh the risks

191 woodcarver an explorer is not a

suicidal potential that will see where

he’s going to kill himself

is a person who knows that there

risks because they are prepared and it is then

when the willingness to take the first step

it requires releasing what for a lot

people safety

up there to move forward is

start releasing things that do not

they need so much the mountain teaches us

to distinguish between the essentials of what

rich accessory is not the most

rich is the one who least needs

so you go lighter and start giving

a first step but as it goes up

higher mountains you also discover

that the next stage of the will is

get up after failure not

you always reach the summit because it is

when the mountain allows it

there are times you can put your best

effort your preparation and yet

you can not

use the top and that’s when you have

exploration to find the

exploration not only out but

inward

I remember that in an expedition in

Himalayas when we approached

alarmed the mountain a local

approached and told us that we were

there doing one of my companions

said we come to conquer the everest and

he was quiet said he did not know

can

and between English 1 and Tibetan

from the other the discussion began until

you already know the universal language

we want to climb the mountain and the place

He said they want to climb the mountain

if the mountain allows them they will

to be able to climb because the conquests are not

out

If you climb the mountain, do not conquer it

the conquests are inward and

when we talk about exploring

we necessarily have to points

most recondite on the planet

we started with us we started with

explore by exploring

simply starting from the base of seeing

with new eyes the ability to

amazement the ability to see

opportunities where apparently the

there are to see experiences where maybe

we do not see them and then nature

as a great teacher we begin to teach

when we begin to explore we give ourselves

mind that nature is that mother

generous that is willing to give no

give us everything and that in fact she does not

it is us that the

we need

however it also has its rules and

you have to know how to fulfill them

when we get to a mountain is a

universal ritual in all mountains

that you have to ask permission from the

mountain and ask for permission not only

because they are part of the rituals

local but because you have to recognize

our exact size nature we are

very small by nature we

teaches how everything with collaborates as

everything contributes the truth is that in what

The mountain staff gave me a great

lesson

I thought if I focused that if I

I trained that if I fed what if

I nurtured that if I had

clear in my thoughts could

reach the highest mountains in the

world but in the process of uploading

mountains nature taught me that

if you do not care about the person you have

next can not go up in the year of

1998 after more than ten years of

attempts after getting the

Sponsorships of touching doors to climb

small mountains was finally to

7 thousand 900 meters about to reach the

summit was already going to the top after

hours of walking in an average of

temperature of minus 18 degrees

walking and that I liked very much

that advance suddenly reached a point

which is known as the southern summit in the

mount everest and tired I realize

that I’m very close to reaching the top

when he turned around and asked one of my

colleagues how much is missing and he

says I’m 80 meters half an hour that

I’m about to reach the top

truth is that it turned my soul to

body and now yes that in the

commercial I said I saw me called the top

after ten years of training

of five years asking for sponsorship of

have given up my job of having

prepared for years and suddenly my

English companions stop and I

they say until here we arrive and I’m not going to

understand that these men lacked

oxygen in the brain who loves

stop when half an hour is missing after

of everything we have done

finally one of my classmates

They say it ‘s not that I want to upload

only thing that we needed was to raise a

step that is known as the step

hillary is a wall of eight meters of

high two and a half meters wide

mixed

this is ice and rock where if you give a

wrong step to the right and China already the

left is metal and you do not want to go to

nowhere

at that time so to ensure not

only your promotion but mainly your

descent you have to place an agreement to my

daughter when I start to walk excited

because only had half an hour , and

I had faced that wall

my colleagues tell me up here

we can not continue

we forget the rope to walk

the last meters

we could raise the everest the truth is

yes, but getting off without a rope could

cost the life to any of the

team members so the

decision was half a turn and back

all when I go down

obviously she is very angry I had

I did everything that belonged to me

suddenly you can look for the culprit

who had been the one who forgot

the rope that he had forgotten

the agreement and when we get down

We started the barbecue that we found at

guilty with first and last name and many

nicknames that came to him at that time

but finally the season is over

and that’s where nature I

taught that it’s useless to have

clear the objective

if you forget others feel I

I did not ask who wears the rope

it helped to load you and then he loaded it

here the great failure was transformed into

some great learning can go up

mountains hills with everything you ‘ve done

learned told me the nature but not

we are talking about the highest is not

enough you have to interest that a

little bit in the next one because when

you ask the other what is it

you need is exactly what you do to you

you need to continue climbing lower

at that time the mountain

I kept training because there are also

have to renew that spirit and

learn from failure and learn from

what would look like garbage but that

nature does not exist the garbage in the

nature the work is an invention created

by the human being in nature

waste nourish the other to the other

part nature those waste already

that failure and it turned to my great

learning and with that learning

you had to learn also about

importance of unity in a

expedition in alaska

my classmates invite me to form

part of a team as part of our

training to return to the everest

in this expedition the leader tells us

let’s go more relaxed strung

connected is a way to upload

mountains that was used early

century

all were tied up at the same pace as

that happened to be satisfied was happening

time and there was an accident that if

he fell 1 he took all the others

people started to disconnect

they said no they can not cry in your

home that I look at mine

we cut here just cry in your house

but the leader does not say let’s go up

strung said a lady lady of

monterrey a mayor when I talked to him

mountain things month since

difficult or mountain month since

complicated by the cold the wind will

cracked risk is still I do not know

how difficult it is to stay tied says

because at least in marriage it is

until death separates us half

but here if it goes that takes truth I

but more than if you leave you take it

very difficult to connect because his life

depends on the other and the life of the other

up to you when the leader the

continuous says we’re going to go up

strung obviously taking we were

against it did not say a friend that I do not

tied me or with whom I carry eight

years that I’m going to walk around with

a stranger but there was no option anymore

we started to climb the mountain and when

we reached a point already to arrive almost

to the top we find that the

wind began to blow very hard and in

that strong blowing you know wind factor

the temperatures lower temperatures that

descend frostbite freezes

amputations and how he does not want if not

they cross their fingers again

the leader made a sign half a turn and

back and we started going down and

when we were going down strung

Suddenly the leader’s scream was heard

that now came from the rear that we

say take firm steps and do not stop

at the moment I concentrate

to take a firm step

that was for me in my mind simply

nail the 12 peaks of my champion me

I find the leader shouting and I

says take firm steps do not stop

he lifted his leg and in that I feel like

If they kicked my backpack I’m going

backs

begins to fall and suddenly the only thing

I thought it was flashy but as I did not

I want to die I got used to the mountain

with the ice ax recover the breath

and I started to turn to see my

I do not see my colleagues

super scared mates waiting

I say sounds like you need states

something same that you almost kill yourself something and what

The only thing they tell me is that I do not know

they reported gmail explained then

begins to say is that I fell and the

backpack heavy the wind and tell me you

move

not of course I got angry and that’s how

they gave an account and they did not care about the eye and

gave him know that what happens is that

You two forget that I’m just

a woman

clear that when I said that the leader of

the expedition grabbed the rope that we

I was left watching my son and the

6 keeps walking to germinate and in that I

I know why because my team does not do not

helped and suddenly my leader said and

friend shows me the rope and I understood

perfect in the mountain situ you commit a

error do not pay the consequences

when you’re tied what you do

impacts on others nor on Friday

find them and what are you the most

fragile I know you’re a woman and that’s why

goods in the middle we have been protecting you

when I fell the only thing I thought

was she kill me

I did not think I took them be

find when I understood that I started to

devote my steps and in my next

attempt to everest in 1999 at the time

in which more difficult more difficulty

I had to go forward when I

it hurt to really take a step when I eat

say as reinhold messner says when

You take a step becomes a real

act of faith

it’s probably because you’re on top of

the 8 thousand meters

it had when I start moving forward in my

second try soon I find myself

with no longer traveling force that moved

my leg and I started to dedicate my steps

and I said this step is not for me

this step is for a little girl that some

Once he offered me his Sundays so that I

will complete the expedition and this one goes

for my family and this one for my friends and

with name and surname

I started to move forward the moment came in

which reaches 8,500 meters and of

soon there is a wall that is known as

the second step are ten meters of

high that at that height to take a step

it’s hard to face a wall

it can simply be a mental block

that makes many of us return when I

I find that wall I said god

mine help me

I do not have strength anymore, help me and

I soon began to hear that voice that

month you’re going to go up but it’s not for you

this is going to serve for something else this is going

to serve for something else and I do not

understood and when I started to dedicate my

Steps

I reached the top and at the top I could see

not only the curvature of the earth

I could see everything down and I loved it

and the only thing that felt a deep

thanks and suddenly I thought or

ten years he finished giving thanks and

as he can not stay long in

the summit immediately down and I promised

return in 10 years in 2009 return to

the mountain and I realized that the

Everest not only allowed me to see the

curvature of the earth and intense blue

nor all the mountain ranges and down below me

allowed to see our exact size

our vulnerability our ability

of being so small reach things

great and also in that process of

ten years working with schools

public I could see how every time a

little one recognized his own mountain

he recognized his own challenge was recognized

as an explorer started to upload his

mountains and his life has changed

I started to see that transformation and

promises to work with young people

from that moment and in 2009

start the foundation

action does is invite you

children from public schools to their

scarce 12 13 14 years are recognized

as explorers today these

young children who have participated with

projects that connect them with the

nature and reconnect them with

themselves have transformed their community their

school its environment from projects of

rainwater harvesting management

waste recovery areas

reforestation greens and that has

taken not only to the snow of Toluca

or to a leadership course but

mainly has led them to the

Antarctic to the white continent to that

blank page where they are

discover as heroes

everyone has their own mountains

We are all explorers, I invite you to

that they live that adventure that is to reach

his own top and that when I did it

top table always have with whom

share thank you

and

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