Marie-Pier Desharnais is an adventurer and high-altitude mountaineer who climbs the highest peaks on the planet.

At 35 years old, the young nomad is on track to become the first woman to complete the ascent of both the 7 summits (the highest mountains) and the 7 volcanic summits. On May 31, 2021, Marie-Pier reached the highest point on Earth, Mount Everest, as part of a project aimed at increasing the female presence on the world's highest, most difficult, and inaccessible mountains. Caught in the 2004 tsunami in Thailand at just 19 years old, she had to learn to cope with her trauma at a young age and develop her personal resilience.

Resilience has even become her profession, as she is now an expert in disaster management and business continuity. Pandemics, natural disasters, cyber-attacks, supply crises, or diplomatic crises — she handles it all. Desharnais is also forced to test her own resilience, and in extreme ways, during her expeditions, which are nothing less than continuous risk management exercises. In July 2022, Marie-Pier became the first woman to raise the Canadian flag at the summit of K2 (Pakistan). She then climbed Mounts Vinson and Sidley in Antarctica in January 2023. In doing so, she became the first woman from the Americas to reach the summit of the 7 highest volcanoes on 7 continents.