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Adventurer and best-selling author Sequoia Schmidt's childhood was spent travelling the world with her father, well-known Kiwi mountaineer Marty Schmidt, before she went on to launch a publishing house Di Angelo Publications in Texas at just 16 years old.
Navigating the loss of both her father and brother in a 2013 avalanche on the mountain K2 and in more recent years the brain cancer diagnosis of her husband, Sequoia's new book, Dream of Flight, delves into her passion of base jumping and her need for extreme sports as a way of dealing with trauma.
Sequoia will be speaking at the New Zealand Mountain Book and Film Festival in Queenstown this coming Monday.
Sequoia Schmidt preparing for a jump. Photo: Sequoia Schmidt
