Climbing Mountains with Caroline Gleich

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Caroline Gleich is a professional ski mountaineer and activist who decided to use her platform as an athlete for good at the top of Mt. Everest early this summer. Her “Climb for Equality” campaign used her 29,029-foot climb as a platform to encourage more women to take on mountains in the outdoors, the boardroom, and daily life. Caroline’s actual journey to the top is an incredible story.

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0:00.0	When I think of wild ideas, Mount Everest is one of the ultimate ideas I think of in the
0:09.1	adventure world. Standing at 29,29 vertical feet, it looks majestic.
0:15.0	Every year, hundreds of people attempt to climb it,
0:18.0	but it's challenging and incredibly risky.
0:21.0	It's located between Nepal and China and just getting there can be hard.
0:25.2	Then once you are there, there's altitude sickness, wild weather,
0:30.0	avalanches, and it's expensive.
0:33.0	There's also people who die there every year.
0:36.0	So with all this, I've always wondered why people still climb this mountain,
0:40.0	what drives them, and how they did it.
0:42.0	This year, the weather window for summoning was small. what drives them and how they did it.
0:42.5	This year the weather window for summoning was small,
0:45.2	a dozen people died while climbing,
0:47.4	but over 880 summited in total
0:50.0	making it one of the busiest years ever. One of those climbers who actually went
0:54.6	from a way less busy side and will get into that on the show was today's guest
0:59.0	Caroline Gike. She's a repeat guest and an incredible adventurer and activist who shares about why she
1:05.9	climbed even with an injury and so much more.
1:08.9	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living.
1:16.0	Carolyn Glyke has an adventurous tenacious spirit and she's a world-class athlete and
1:20.3	activist which I think is a great combo.
1:23.0	She's been on the show before, and we talked about her activism,
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