Steve is learning to not be afraid of carbs and insulin after 16 years of practice and aspires to climb El Capitan in Yosemite in a day-and to establish new bigwall climbs on Baffin Island if the weather gets warm enough above the arctic circle.

Blake is an accomplished rock climber and photographer who has traveled the world and not let type 1 diabetes keep him from routinely doing things that are objectively difficult. He was diagnosed at the age of ten and started climbing about six years ago. “My goal has always been to not let diabetes limit my pursuits. I am always thinking how can I make diabetes work with this, its just another factor; I try not to let it constrain me.’

Blake is frequently found establishing new climbing routes in and around Flagstaff, Az where he runs his photography business blakemccordphoto.com 

Carter has been working in sustainable development and digital design for a while, but she has never let a job be her answer to what she’s doing. It didn’t take long after her ’96 diagnosis to realise that Type 1 diabetes wasn’t as limiting as so many people claimed it to be. “There will be an unfathomable number of times where diabetes will take spotlight in my life’s journeys. It’s exciting to be prepared to handle those and take the opportunity to educate the people who surround me along the way.”

A few years into the whirlwind of nomadic life, Carter is on a constant quest to create and capture moments. She’s still working on her goal of sleeping outside more nights than in.