Lisa Thompson

Listen to "Lisa Thompson Prepares For K2" on Spreaker. Lisa Thompson is an accomplished mountaineer who has stood on top of six of the world's highest mountains, including Mt. Everest. Her Everest trek was recently featured in Sports lIlustrated’s “Capturing Everest” virtual reality documentary. Throughout her life, she has become adept at gracefully overcoming challenges in order to accomplish astounding things. She is a cancer survivor and, to this day, the only person in her entire family to graduate from college. Since graduation, she’s grown her career from a field service engineer to become the leader of a $25MM organization. Lisa is currently preparing for her most challenging climb to date: K2, a mountain range on the China-Pakistan border. She departs for the trek in June.