[4] DesLauriers graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in environmental political science, where she took up trail running and rock climbing.
[5] DesLauriers is a two-time women's world freeskiing champion, winning back-to-back titles in 2004 and 2005 after only two years of competition.
In August 2005, she won the women's division of the Rendezvous Hill Climb to the top of the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.
In May 2004, DesLauriers became the first American woman to climb and ski from the summit of the highest peak in America -- Denali, in Alaska.
The couple live in Teton Village, Wyoming, where she is a stonemason and runs landscape design company Rockit Corporation.