📖 Blending Mountains + Medicine into a Memoir: Tap Dancing on Everest with Grit Lit Featured Author Mimi Zieman

<p>Mimi was a third-year medical student when she signed on as the sole medical officer and only woman on a four-climber expedition attempting the east face of Everest from Tibet (a route that had only been climbed once before).</p><p><br></p><p><em><strong>If you love what Mimi has to say, her memoir was the featured book in our last winter Grit Lit box.</strong></em><a href="https://cairnproject.org/grit-lit" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em><strong> Join Grit Lit now</strong></em></a><em><strong> and you&#39;ll get our welcome box plus the next quarterly box this summer. Proceeds fund wilderness scholarships for girls and women.</strong></em></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Mimi Zieman</strong> is a physician, writer, and the 2025 Georgia Author of the Year for her memoir Tap Dancing on Everest, also selected as the Best Memoir of 2024 by the American Writing Awards. </p><p><br></p><p>Mimi and Angie talk about:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Training to be the sole medical officer on an Everest expedition while still a third-year med student</li><li>Solo backpacking in Nepal in a pre-internet era</li><li>Why Mimi became an OB/GYN after a bad teenage appointment</li><li>The beauty and challenge of being the sole woman on an Himalayan expedition</li><li>What menstruating adventurers should know before heading into the backcountry</li><li>Advice for women who want to write a book, and behind the scenes of writing a vulnerable memoir</li></ul><p><br></p><p>📚<a href="https://cairnproject.org/grit-lit" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> Join Grit Lit</a> — <em>Tap Dancing on Everest</em> was in last winter&#39;s box!</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Check out these resources:</strong></p><p>📖 <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/tap-dancing-on-everest-a-young-doctor-s-unlikely-adventure-mimi-zieman-m-d/2e4ff146d017a34d" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><em>Tap Dancing on Everest</em> by Mimi Zieman</a></p><p>🌐<a href="https://www.mimiziemanmd.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> mimiziemanmd.com</a></p><p>📱 Mimi on<a href="https://www.instagram.com/mimiziemanmd" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> Instagram</a>,<a href="https://www.facebook.com/mimiziemanmd" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> Facebook</a>, and<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@mimiziemanmd" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> TikTok</a></p><p>✏️ <a href="https://mimiziemanmd.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener