Utah mom of 7 striving to become first woman to climb Seven Second Summits

PARK CITY, Utah — A Utah mom of seven is one step closer to becoming the first woman to climb the second-highest mountains on each continent called the “Seven Second Summits.”  

Since February, Jenn Drummond has completed hikes in South America and Africa.

She is now gearing up to summit Mt. Dykh-Tau in Russia.

With seven little ones at home, Drummond said the key to training for a feat like this is time management.

“I have to map out my week during the week and say like, ‘Okay, here is kid time, here’s mom time, here is training time,’” she said.

Drummond said her journey started during the pandemic when she was looking for a goal to work towards.

“With COVID, everybody’s bored out of their minds, trying to think of something to do,” she said. “So I’ve done two of the seven, which was Ojos Del Salado in Chile and Mount Kenya in Kenya.”

Drummond documents her climbs on her blog Bold Brave Beautiful.

In May, she climbed Mt. Everest as a way to train for the other hikes still left on the list.

 

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“It was kind of a competition with one of my kids about how we do hard things, so he did his math and I did Everest,” she said.

Surprisingly, finding time to train is something she can manage with her kids’ schedules.

“If they have a soccer practice, I might be the mom on the sidelines doing squats, things like that, so I can watch them and be getting a training session done,” Drummond said.

The mom’s ultimate goal is to show her children that anything is possible.

“Having them watch me make sacrifices and be committed to a goal and making decisions around that goal, allows them to see what’s involved in chasing goals and how that really works,” she said. “For me, I’m a better version of me when I have goals that I’m going after too.”