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National Park Service as a climbing ranger. The next year, Metcalfe began working with
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Angeles, and first began climbing as a teenager. She began mountaineering with earnest after moving to Colorado in 1992, where she would go on to attend Colorado College. She graduated from medical school at the
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American woman to do so.
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864:"Quarantine Q&A - Big Mountain Doc and Skier Dr. Tracee Metcalfe - The Backcountry Ski Touring Blog"
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814:"Autumn 2018 Himalayan Climbing: Summits, Missing Climber, Skiing Lhotse | The Blog on alanarnette.com"
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449:"My Story – Tracee Metcalfe"
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187:In 2022, Metcalfe summited
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