Andrew Beeghly’s Path to Success

For some people, the path to success is singular and well-traveled. You go to school, you go to college, you get a job, and you settle in to the next forty or fifty years of the same thing. Then there are people like Andrew Beeghly, who forge their own paths to success, hacking through the underbrush and making a ruckus. It may not be the way everyone else does it, but it sure does look like fun.

Andrew Beeghly’s path began in Haiti. He decided to volunteer for some clinical work in an aid camp in Mahotte in 2002. The work suited him, he found, and he began considering a path in medicine. Then Andrew Beeghly joined the Army, where he was assigned as a Combat Medic; during this time he received medical training and was attached to the Special Forces in West Virginia. After his training, Andrew Beeghly decided to volunteer again, this time in disaster relief after the tsunami in Sri Lanka. When he returned, he went to medical school, then completed his residency. All this time, of course, Andrew Beeghly was pursuing his other goals as well; he learned mountaineering and became a dive instructor, among other pursuits.

After this Andrew Beeghly decided to return to Haiti and serve as an aid worker for the victims of the earthquake in 2010. When he returned he was recruited as the physician for an expedition to climb Mount Everest. And this has only been the beginning for the thirty three year old Andrew Beeghly.