Rae Raptor walking on a highline outdoors with mountains and a city in the background under a clear blue sky.
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After 28 years as an English professor,

Rae Raptor reinvented herself as the world’s oldest woman highliner

…and then crashed, came to faith, and wrote her story.

“Let us go on and take the adventure that shall fall to us.” —C.S. Lewis

“Let us go on and take the adventure that shall fall to us.” —C.S. Lewis

Rae Raptor with short brown hair and blue eyes, wearing a light green sweatshirt, a colorful scarf with animal prints, and small earrings, standing against a plain gray background.

Author

When sixty-year-old Rae Raptor—a recently retired English professor—steps onto a one-inch ribbon of webbing suspended hundreds of feet above the ground, she has no idea where this first step will lead.

Currently seeking an agent.

Book

Speaker

Drawing on her experience as a retired professor, author, and the world’s oldest woman highliner, Rae speaks about fear, aging, reinvention, balance, and faith. Her presentations combine storytelling, humor, reflection, and scenes from the world of highlining and outdoor adventure.

Speaking Opportunities
Woman sits on highline above deep valley

Slackliner

At sixty, Rae retired and took up slacklining to maintain balance in older age. Step by step, slacklining became her passion. Smitten, she aspired to highline—slacklining at dizzying heights, over gorges and canyons. What began as a search for balance and self-mastery eventually exposed a spiritual hunger.

Slacklining
Rae Raptor seen in a series of photos, all standing near a wall with a mirror and window in the background.
Rae Raptor walking on a slackline stretched between a palm tree and the ground on a beach, with ocean and clear sky in the background.
Rae Raptor performing on a slackline indoors, while an audience watches. The room has framed artwork on the walls, a wooden cabinet with a clock, and chairs.
A group of people sitting on a panel at a conference, with a woman speaking into a microphone. There are three women on the stage, and a large screen behind them displaying an image of a person kayaking in a river.
Rae Raptor walking on a highline high above rocky desert terrain with mountains in the background under a clear blue sky.
A group of people walking barefoot on grass in a residential area with houses and cars in the background. Some children and adults are smiling and engaging with each other.