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Amber Constant

Amber Constant

White Mountains (NH) ultrarunner and traveling nurse attempting to break the all-time annual vertical gain world record of 3.65 million feet.

Aug 31, 2026

27:33
How did you get your start in any of this? Because Louisiana is not really a hotspot for vert.
27:39
I know it was under sea level in a flood zone.
27:45
So me, I would say my family and I, we would travel around the United States in a van.
27:51
So by the time I was 48, I mean, 48, by the time I was, sorry, I probably have the IQ of a doorknob during this project.
27:59
But by the time I was 16, we went to 48 states.
28:03
And so like I had a lot of exposure like around and something that always stuck out to me was the mountains.
28:12
And I was never able to climb them because my brother had cerebral palsy and he's my only sibling and he was in a wheelchair and we like never wanted to make him feel bad.

9 MINS LATER

37:33
Do you spend any time there throughout this? You said you've gone back a little bit, but do you mostly just not go to your house anymore?
6:23
So in New Orleans, did you have brothers and sisters or what did your family life look like there?
6:32
So it was a little interesting.
6:34
We did van life hybrid style until I was 16.
6:38
My brother's in a wheelchair.
6:39
My dad would work from home and was the VP of like a frozen food company.
6:43
And my mom was a stay at home mom for my brother.
6:46
So essentially we would travel all over the United States and like go follow my dad to where he had business.

47 MINS LATER

53:25
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