Beth Rodden: A Light Through The Cracks

Climbing Gold

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Beth Rodden 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 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. Thanks to our sponsors The North Face LMNT Use link to get a free LMNT sample pack with any order COROS Use code CLIMBINGGOLD to get a free watch carabiner with the purchase of a VERTIX 2s watch when both items are in your cart. Watch Climbing Gold on YouTube

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0:00.0	Alex, I feel like you're probably gearing up for a valley mission this fall.
0:05.0	Yeah, I am hoping to climb in Yosemite in November. We'll see.
0:09.0	Yeah. Do you have something you're going to work on or just have fun?
0:12.0	Yeah, sort of aspiring to free the nose, but we'll see.
0:15.0	Damn, dude.
0:16.0	Well, I've worked in the past and I've kind of almost done it. And, you know, I've clown on the nose a lot. It seems like it's a dad-friendly mission and that you can work the hardest parts by yourself.
0:24.7	In terms of those L-CAP, hard free routes, which ones have been repeated?
0:30.6	And like what's still kind of like only been done once?
0:34.4	Let's see.
0:35.8	Well, many of them have been repeated.
0:38.2	Daheederwall hasn't been repeated.
0:39.5	Donwall hasn't been repeated.
0:40.7	And Lurking Fear hasn't been repeated.
0:42.8	No, no.
0:43.1	Andre did the Donwall.
0:44.3	Yeah, yeah.
0:44.7	My bad.
0:45.1	My bad.
0:45.8	Hasn't been repeated by anybody mortal.
0:49.2	Yeah, that's true.
0:50.4	So maybe the diheter.
0:51.9	No, but actually, I think maybe Yorgh Verhoeven or somebody,
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