Tracee Lee Metcalfe is a mountaineer, backcountry skier and internal medicine physician from Vail, Colorado.
[8] She completed her medical residency in internal medicine in Seattle, and then moved back to Colorado to work at Vail Health Hospital.
The next year, Metcalfe began working with Russell Brice's Himalayan Experience as an expedition medic.
[9][10] She has continued to spend each climbing season working as a high-altitude expedition doctor, and established best practices in the field for other medics.
The expedition reached the fore-summit of the peak at 8,125m, as fixed ropes were not affixed higher on the mountain.
[20] In January, Metcalfe was featured in an exhibition from the Colorado Snowsports Museum Hall of Fame, "Vail Women Climb Everest" series.
[16] In 2022, Metcalfe summited Dhaulagiri on April 9[22] and Kangchenjunga on May 7 with expedition teams led by Imagine Nepal.
[24] She was a personal friend of Rzucidlo,[25] but was frustrated by how the competition between climbers changed the dynamics on the mountain.
[26][27] Due to unstable conditions on the mountain, she would not attempt the summit of Shishapangma that year, turning back after the first avalanche hit.