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Interview:
Squash Falconer
adventurer,
speaker and
presenter
Why Squash?
My older sister couldn’t say my name, Louise. She called me Ease, then Peas,
then Squashypeas and finally just Squash.
What was your journey to this point?
I grew up on a farm in Derbyshire and loved being outside and with
animals.
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animals.
I wanted
wanted
to be awhich
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During
my A-levels,
I that
to be a farmer
to a vet.to
During
A-levels,
I realised
realised
that Itodidn’t
want
toactually
be a vet didn’t
and actually
didn’t
know what
I wanted
I didn’t want
be a vet
and
know what
I wanted
to do.
I felt to
do.
I felt pressured
pressured
to decide.to decide.
Fortunately one of my best friends suggested a ski season and soon after we
were on our way to Les Arcs in France and my first experience of the mountains.
I had a view of Mt Blanc and I would regularly look at it and think, “People climb
that mountain, that would be a cool thing to do.”
The first mountain I climbed was in South America, Acconcagua 6,962m, the
highest peak in the Southern Hemisphere. I was 23 and I loved it. Three years
later my friends and I hatched another plan to climb Mustagata in China,
7,546m and we took skis and snowboards and made a film about it. We entered
the Kendal Mountain Film Festival and did quite well. I enjoyed filmmaking,
presenting and sharing the adventures but didn’t know how to make that ‘a job’.
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