Pilots: First instrument-rated deaf female pilot
Nicole Bringolf loves being outdoors—climbing, skiing, mountaineering, and river rafting. While she attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks, she did all that, as well as compete for the U.S. Deaf Ski Team and fulfill a dream of flying that began when she was 10 and flew in a Piper Archer. “I forgot that I had ever walked the Earth,” Bringolf said of the experience. Now age 42, she became deaf at age 1.<