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It looked like clipping into a rope at high altitude, pushing forward through fear, and standing on the summit of a mountain that few people would ever attempt to climb.</p> 646 647 648 649<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Over the course of seven years, I traveled to the Seven Summitsâthe highest peak on each continent. Along the way, I survived an avalanche on Everest, endured brutal storms on Denali, and trekked through some of the most remote places on earth. People often ask me which mountain was the hardest.</p> 650 651 652 653<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The truth is, the bravest person I have ever known never climbed a mountain at all.</p> 654 655 656 657<p class="wp-block-paragraph">She was my mother.</p> 658 659 660 661 662 663<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I was twenty-five years old when my mother was diagnosed with ALS. At the time, I was living in New York City, building a career I loved, and imagining a future that stretched out endlessly before me. Then, with a single diagnosis, everything changed.</p> 664 665 666 667<p class="wp-block-paragraph">ALS is a cruel disease. It takes away the body’s ability to function while leaving the mind heartbreakingly intact. Over the next seven years, I watched my mother gradually lose the ability to walk, to dress herself, to eat, and eventually, to speak.</p> 668 669 670 671<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And yet, somehow, she remained the strongest person in every room she entered.</p> 672 673 674 675<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As her illness progressed, I found myself living two seemingly opposite lives. I was climbing mountains around the world while also returning home to care for my mother. One week I might be standing on a glacier in Alaska or trekking through the jungles of Papua. The next, I would be sitting beside my mother at a doctor’s appointment, helping her navigate a world that had become increasingly inaccessible.</p> 676 677 678 679<p class="wp-block-paragraph">
679For years, I thought these were two separate journeys: one about adventure and achievement, the other about love, responsibility, and loss. I understand now that they were always the same journey.</p> 680 681 682 683<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The mountains taught me many things. They taught me endurance. They taught me humility. They taught me that fear and courage often exist side by side. But my mother taught me what courage actually looks like. It looks like getting out of bed each morning when you know that tomorrow will be harder than today. It looks like choosing gratitude when anger would be easier. It looks like finding reasons to laugh even as your world becomes smaller and smaller. Most of all, it looks like continuing to love the people around you with your whole heart, even while experiencing unimaginable loss yourself.</p> 684 685 686 687<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There is one image of my mother that returns to me often. By the time ALS had taken so much from her, she could no longer do many of the things she had once done effortlessly. Yet whenever I walked into the room, she smiled. Not because she wasn’t afraid. Not because she was pretending everything was okay. But because, even then, she wanted me to know that I was loved.</p> 688 689 690 691<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I climbed thousands of feet above sea level searching for meaning, purpose, and perhaps some understanding of myself. I traveled to the ends of the earth believing that courage was something found in extraordinary places. All the while, the greatest lesson in courage was waiting for me at home.</p> 692 693 694 695<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Now, years after losing my mother, I realize that the most important journeys we take in life are rarely the ones that carry us across continents or to the tops of mountains. They are the journeys that teach us how to love, how to care for one another, and ultimately, how to let go.</p> 696 697 698 699<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I wrote <em>Where the Air Grows Thin</em> because I wanted to tell the story of those parallel journeys: a daughter climbing the highest mountains in the world while learning that the bravest person she would ever know was her mother.</p> 700 701 702 703<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I climbed some of the highest peaks on earth. But if I learned anything from those years, it’s that the bravest journey I ever witnessed wasn’t mine.</p> 704 705 706 707<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It was my mother’s.</p> 708 709 710 711<div class="wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex"> 712<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><a href="https://motherdaughterbookclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/where-the-air-grows-thin-9798896361701_lg.jpg"><img decoding="async" width="259" height="400" src="https://motherdaughterbookclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/where-the-air-grows-thin-9798896361701_lg.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11420" srcset="https://motherdaughterbookclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/where-the-air-grows-thin-9798896361701_lg.jpg 259w, https://motherdaughterbookclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/where-the-air-grows-thin-9798896361701_lg-194x300.jpg 194w" sizes="(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px" /></a></figure> 713 714 715 716<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Nicole LoBiondo’s debut memoir,</em> <strong>Where the Air Grows Thin</strong>, <em>chronicles her quest to climb the Seven Summits while serving as her mother’s primary caregiver through ALS. Blending high-altitude adventure with an intimate story of love, loss, and resilience, the book is available</em> <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Where-the-Air-Grows-Thin/Nicole-LoBiondo/9798896361701?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a><em>, or wherever books are sold.</em></p> 717 718 719 720<p class="wp-block-paragraph"></p> 721</div> 722<div class="linkwithin_hook" id="https://motherdaughterbookclub.com/2026/09/what-my-mother-taught-me-about-courage-a-guest-post-by-nicole-lobiondo/"></div>
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Of torment, but you never complained. You continued with strength to care for your mom, just like you continued to climb the 7 summers. You are an amazing girl with mental and physical strength. Iâm so proud of you for all your accomplishments but primarily caring for your mom which was the hardest thing you did in your life. I saw how you cared for her and never left her side. I love you so much. This is a wonderful book thatâs covers taking care of mom and submitting the seven mountains. Youâre an extraordinary person. Much luck with your book, top sellerðð¼</p> 780</div> 781 </article><!-- #comment-## --> 782 783 </li><!-- #comment-## --> 784 </ol> 785 786 787 </div><!-- #comments --> 788 789 790 </div><!-- #content --> 791 </div><!-- #container --> 792 </div><!-- #container_wrap --> 793 794 <div id="sidebar_wrap_right" class="right-2-col equal_height"> 795<div id="sidebar_wrap_2_right_left"></div><div id="sidebar_wrap_2_right_right"> <div id="right-widget-area" class="widget-area " role="complementary"> 796<aside id="ssba_widget-3" class="widget widget_ssba_widget"><h3 class="widget-title">Share Buttons</h3><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.7.0) simplesharebuttons.com --><div class="ssba-classic-2 ssba ssbp-wrap alignleft ssbp--theme-1"><div style="text-align:left"><a data-site="facebook" class="ssba_facebook_share ssba_share_link" href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?t=What My Mother Taught Me About Courage â A Guest Post by Nicole LoBiondo&u=https://motherdaughterbookclub.com/2026/09/what-my-mother-taught-me-about-courage-a-guest-post-by-nicole-lobiondo/" target=_blank style="color:; background-color: ; height: 48px; width: 48px; " ><img src="https://motherdaughterbookclub.com/wp-content/plugins/simple-share-buttons-adder/buttons/somacro/facebook.png" style="width: 35px;" title="facebook" class="ssba ssba-img" alt="Share on facebook" /><div title="Facebook" class="ssbp-text">Facebook</div></a><a data-site="pinterest" class="ssba_pinterest_share ssba_share_link" href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?description=What My Mother Taught Me About Courage â A Guest Post by Nicole LoBiondo&media=&url=https://motherdaughterbookclub.com/2026/09/what-my-mother-taught-me-about-courage-a-guest-post-by-nicole-lobiondo/" target=_blank style="color:; background-color: ; height: 48px; width: 48px; " ><img src="https://motherdaughterbookclub.com/wp-content/plugins/simple-share-buttons-adder/buttons/somacro/pinterest.png" style="width: 35px;" title="pinterest" class="ssba ssba-img" alt="Share on pinterest" /><div title="Pinterest" class="ssbp-text">Pinterest</div></a><a data-site="twitter" class="ssba_twitter_share ssba_share_link" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=What My Mother Taught Me About Courage â A Guest Post by Nicole LoBiondo&url=https://motherdaughterbookclub.com/2026/09/what-my-mother-taught-me-about-courage-a-guest-post-by-nicole-lobiondo/&via=" target=_blank style="color:; background-color: ; height: 48px; width: 48px; " ><img src="https://motherdaughterbookclub.com/wp-content/plugins/simple-share-buttons-adder/buttons/somacro/twitter.png" style="width: 35px;" title="twitter" class="ssba ssba-img" alt="Share on twitter" /><div title="Twitter" class="ssbp-text">Twitter</div></a>
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