From growing up at the base of the Tetons in Jackson Hole, Wyoming to becoming a professional skier traveling the globe for big mountain expeditions and competitions, Hadley prefers to explore with skis on her feet. Since she debuted in the Freeride World Tour at age 25-‘old’ for most competitors, she’s gone on to star regularly in ski films for Teton Gravity Research, Sherpas Cinema, and a upcoming climate change documentary-descending mountain faces, all the while representing companies including The North Face on their global athlete team. While her sommelier degree, love for literature, and soft spoken nature don’t quite match the industry stereotype, Hadley has proved capable of carrying the paradox of grit and grace to the steep faces of the mountains-embracing the duality as she ascends and descends.

As much as the mountains have given her, they’ve taken from her in equal or greater measure. In 2018 she had a debilitating ski crash before a year later suffering the public loss of her boyfriend and world-famous mountaineer David Lama to an avalanche. Hadley has turned to skiing, writing and nature to navigate how to reside within this paradox. She transformed her social media following into The Discourse, an online campfire where long-formatted stories are shared back and forth between Hadley and her community, fans, and followers. If she’s not in the mountains, she is writing about her adventures in them.

The 38 year old lives in the Alps. Hammer expresses herself on mountains and translates the thoughts behind those experiences onto paper