Beth Rodden: A Light Through The Cracks

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Beth Rodden first started climbing in 1995, and it wasn’t long before she radically changed the sport. Within three years, she’d become the first woman to climb 5.14; within five, she’d established a still unrepeated free route on Yosemite’s El Capitan. Today, Beth is making waves in a different way: by leading the climbing community in difficult, vulnerable conversations. Fitz chats with Beth about her new book, A Light Through the Cracks, and what it means to live a big life. Support comes from Ketone.com/DirtbagDiaries Get 30% off your first subscription Kuat Racks AeroPress Use code DIARIES to save 20% Pre-Order States of Adventure– 30 stories adapted from The Diaries into a book! Want more episodes? Join Dirtbag Diaries+ today

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0:00.0	Hello Lauren you're back from you're back from Morocco where you were climbing that's pretty
0:05.6	rad I'm back I'm happy to be back it was an amazing trip but a little intense and
0:11.7	yeah excited to be back in California for a little while
0:15.0	while now. Yeah, that's awesome.
0:17.0	Yeah, thanks, it was really cool.
0:20.0	Fitz, I have a question for you today.
0:22.0	Okay.
0:23.0	Um, how long have you been climbing?
0:26.7	Oh, um, who, that's, let's see.
0:30.7	Um, I think it has been 27 years, which is crazy to do the math because it feels
0:39.8	almost like yesterday because I can kind of remember those years very very well.
0:44.5	And so I guess we can say, you know, objectively that you've been in the climbing scene
0:49.4	for a while.
0:50.4	Are you calling me old, what's up with this?
0:52.4	Not, your experience. Yeah. Are you're calling me old what's up with this? You're experienced.
0:54.0	Yeah.
0:55.0	And so being though in the climbing scene for 27 years,
1:00.0	you've seen a lot of climbers kind of come and go from the scene and a lot of them have have made a mark and some of those marks were
1:07.2	Brief and fleeting and exciting and then there's other climbers that have seemed to really stay at the top of their game and to stay like a big figure
1:14.7	in the climbing scene for a while.
1:16.8	Oh yeah and I think that that's that's really true and I've seen that in so many of the
1:20.9	sports that we cover on the dirtbag diairies too is that there are people that do,
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