286: Peak Danger with Cecilie Skog

National Park After Dark

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In todays episode, we had the incredible opportunity to speak with Cecilie Skog. Cecilie has cemented her place in the world of extreme adventure sports as being the first person in the world to have skied across both the North and the South Poles and to have climbed all of The Seven Summits. She also completed the first unassisted and unsupported trek across the continent of Antarctica and has made several treks across Greenland. Cecilie was also among the 31 climbers who were on K2 on its deadliest day in August 2008. She survived one of the worst tragedies in Himalayan history, witnessed her husband lose his life on the mountain - and has persevered. This isn’t a conversation to miss.

Listen to Extreme: Peak Danger HERE

For the latest NPAD updates, group travel details, merch and more, follow us on npadpodcast.com and our socials at:

Instagram: @nationalparkafterdark
Twitter/X: @npadpodcast
TikTok: @nationalparkafterdark

Support the show by becoming an Outsider and receive ad free listening, bonus content and more on Patreon or Apple Podcasts. Want to see our faces? Catch full episodes on our YouTube Page!

Thank you to the week’s partners!
BetterHelp: National Park After Dark is sponsored by BetterHelp. Get 10% off.
Lume Deodorant: Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with
@lumedeodorant and get 15% off with promo code NPAD at LumeDeodorant.com! #lumepod
Quince: Use our link to get free shipping and 365-day returns.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to National Park After Dark. We're so excited to have you all here this week. We're doing something a little bit different as we're doing an interview for our Monday episode. We are. We just wrapped up with an incredible woman named Cecilia. And you are going to hear everything from how she got into her passion of extreme sports and mountaineering
0:23.0	to her climbs around the world. Yes, we're so excited to bring this interview to you all.
0:28.8	Cecilia is an incredibly accomplished high altitude mountaineer who has climbed the tallest
0:34.1	peaks on every continent and has skied across both the north and south poles.
0:39.1	Cecilia grew up in Norway, surrounded by mountains, which from her words, she became
0:43.7	completely obsessed with as a teenager. As she became more comfortable recreating in the outdoors,
0:49.5	her passion led her all over the world. She took climbing courses, trained as a guide, and became a nurse.
0:55.9	However, nursing fell to the wayside as she discovered her deep love for the outdoors, and instead,
1:00.6	she furthered her outdoor career as a professional mountaineer. While her outdoor accomplishments are
1:06.0	endless and ongoing, she has recently became a speaker on the podcast Extreme Peak Danger, where she
1:12.1	details her experience on the second tallest mountain in the world, K2 in Pakistan.
1:17.6	Cecilia was involved in the tragic mountaineering accident that occurred on K2 in 2008, which
1:23.1	resulted in the deaths of 11 climbers, one of whom was her husband, Rolf Bay.
1:28.1	Today, she joins us to discuss her experiences as a mountaineer, the expedition on K2, along with the
1:34.3	incredible achievement she has completed around the world.
1:37.7	Cecilia Skog, welcome to National Park After Dark.
2:04.9	Music National Park After Dark. Hello, Cecilia, and welcome to National Park After Dark.
2:06.4	Thank you so much for being here.
2:08.4	Thank you for having me.
2:19.1	To say you are an incredibly accomplished person in the realm of outdoor recreation feels like a statement that kind of falls embarrassingly short, given your extensive resume. You have done so much in the world of professional adventuring, mountaineering, climbing,
2:24.5	and guiding. But we know that you weren't just born that way with all of that experience.
2:29.5	So can you give us a little bit of insight into your life growing up and how you fell in love with extreme
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -22 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Audioboom Studios, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Audioboom Studios and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.