Real life true stories from Kieren Gaul, catskiing, powder skiing, avalanches, Business
Chapter I wrote in great pain. A love letter to Paula, and a hope for the future.
All sorts of treatments, Clinical trails, you name it this chapter is non stop action
Last great day, the Start of covid, the top of half dome, and the perfect summer. How stupid I can be.
Freesia lost on the mountain on the coldest snowiest night of the year
The amazing 2nd honeymoon. New hope, new treatments, sharks in the Cancer world. Checkpoint inhibitors and immunotherapies
The evil of Mordor, running from Mordor. Spending up big in the summer of 2014, Then getting slammed by our worst season ever. Would we run out of money?
Rich Vs Poor battle in Ski racing.The Ultimate quest to find the Dalai Lama
Mountain Lions, Bears Moose, killer attack birds
The Legend of the Lucky hat. First Heli rescue, The man who beat Man Tracker. Putting all the kids in school in Australia for the first time
The ring of power, Stuck at the top of the waterfall of death, Filming the Matrix at Big Red Cats, and Salomon Freeski TV
After being so hopeful after the second Big operation on my liver, the cancer can back in 3 months, and much worse than before. One of the tumours had grown from nothing to 14cm in diameter in that time. I thought that I would be dead in just a few months. This is the story of what happened next...
Keith Saves Magdalena's Life and saves Big Red Cats - 3rd season of Big Red Cats 2007/2008 season. Selling half of Big Red Cats, because of the looming recession, so that we can become a 4 snowcat operation and not go broke. Gaby's pink ukelele.
Surviving by pure luck. The terrible avalanche accident in 1984. Working for the Barbarian at the gates. The Bonfires of the Vanities
In around 1986, I went to a warren miller movie. It was about ski guiding in the Monashees and Caribous. This movie inspired me to become a ski guide. In some crazy circular magic, In the final ski guide exam I got to ski and spend time with the original guides that had inspired me all those years ago. The universe was on my side.
Creating the impossible, Elvis, Freesia born, Building the Shed and the snowcats roads, and the first winter.
How did Big Red Cats start? The Competition to Buy Red Mountain. September 11 2001 watching the twin towers fall. Sammies first skiing. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Finding Rossland and Red Mountain. Designing and Building our new house. The birth of Gaby. The Big secret that Paula and I had about cat skiing.
I died twice during this period. Find out how. How the cancer medical system works and the problems. 2nd operation. Wingfoiling with arms dealers. How we ran Big Red Cats in the depths of the Pandemic.
The birth of Sammie, meeting Paula, 20 Questions, Falling in Love, Boston Consulting Group. Going to Whistler, learning how to snowboard. Paula's role in the creation of Jetstar. The great barrier Reef, Lost, cold and crashing Mountain Biking Jugungal. Suzie Israel, and the great diamond. paragliding, Stanwell park. The Sydney 2000 Olympics. The closing ceremony. The conception of Sam. The Olympic Triathlon, Sharon Donnely and Simon Whitfield. The engagement, the best wedding ever on top of a hill. Andrew Forrest. The legendary bond buyback. Team the podcast is free. Once it. is done I will turn it into an audiobook. I know that lots of you have already contributed to Sammie's ski racing fund. However, don't feel that you have to contribute, everyone's personal circumstances are different, and we are doing well. The best reason to contribute is to show that Sammie is supported, but you can also do this by following her Instagram and leaving an occasional positive message. However, if you do feel like contributing it is tax deductible in Australia at the following link https://asf.org.au/projects/support-sammie-gaul's-ski-racing-dreams?Token=a1H5j0000009Y6z&Status=preview
The start and the falling apart of my first marriage. Helping to start COMSEC, Commonwealth Bank, private equity, Leveraged finance, CVC, the great dealing room, Brambles, Bond and repo trading. Sitting next to Rachel. Training for the Hero's Journey. Buying and selling real estate. Kerr Neilson. Wall Street, Liars Poker. The death of Scully. ABB and the Wallenberg family. Skiing Engelberg.
Losing my Virginity, Ronald Reagan, Crashing cars, canyoning, The Hole in the wall canyon. Retiring from ski racing, the great 1987 stock market crash. New friends, working 3 jobs through university, Living with my Grandma. The enterprize worksop, Treasurer of the ATC ski association. Running and racing Robert De Costella. Skiing powder in North America, Skiing with Pepi Steigler, and finding peace on the Napali trail.
Side effects of Chemotherapy, deciding whether to run Big Red Cats for the 2020/21 season Building the First Bowl road. Windfoiling Releasing anger with. the energy healers. Kelly Turners Radical Remission, and Jan McClellands how to starve cancer. Disappointment with my Genetic report.
Probably the longest chapter. A bit slow in places. My history as a ski racer. Racing downhill, skiing slalom on ice over grass in Semmering. History of Thredbo, Thredbo World Cup. Chinese downhill, Kokanee cup win, Skiing with Prince Hubertus, Nancy Greene, Stefan Eberharter, Ingemar Stenmark, Finn Christain Jagge, Dan Warbrick, Michael Milton, Kurt Lance, Malcolm Milne, Ken Read, Steve Lee, Felix BelcDavid Price, Don McInnes, Charles Anton, David Studley, Harold Stufer, Pete Forras, Al Gus. Bob Arnott, Richie Biggins, Chris Biggins, and Katy Gaul.
Kieren Gaul growing up fighting. Epic battles. Getting beaten up. The Gangs of Canberra. Gambit the super dog. The epic underwater challenge. Chasing armed robbers and nearly killing muggers. A quest to show that Japanese Samari were not the superior race, involving the Thai Royal family. enjoy.
How Rupert was responsible for not just the Greatest media empire of all time, but also me!
This is the first chapter of my book Growth Truth Adventure Love. It starts off with my diagnosis in 2020 of stage 4 Bowell cancer.
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