About Amy Purdy

Amy Purdy has defied the odds throughout her life and overcome a near death-experience to accomplish some extraordinary things.

Amy grew up with a passion for snowboarding and dreamed of traveling the world. Despite obstacles that perhaps should have stopped her dead in her tracks, that passion carried her not only to the upper echelons of athletics but onto the dance floor of Hollywood and well, well beyond.

Amy is a NY Times best-selling author who has been published in ten different languages ...