#5 - Shailee Basnet on Summiting Everest, The AT vs. PCT, and Thru-Hiking Purism

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Zach Davis

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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Curious what it's like to go from someone who never hikes to summiting Mt. Everest?

Enter Shailee Basnet.

After growing up with "the secret dream to go out and play" in the face of a culture that discourages women from doing so, Basnet was presented with the opportunity to summit Everest. She took it, and has never looked back. Since conquering the tallest mountain on earth, Basnet spearheaded the Seven Summits Women Team, which became the first female team in the world to climb the highest peak in each continent.

Topics discussed in this episode include:

Backpacker Radio's Patreon Account
Trail Correspondents Application (This is closed already. Stay tuned to meet your Correspondents soon!)
Shailee Basnet
Shoutout to Chris Baker of Wayfinder
Jennifer Pharr Davis Mailbag!
The Appalachian Trail vs. The Pacific Crest Trail
Sun Gloves
Thru-hiking purism debate
Hiking with a dog on the AT
Sun umbrella

Transcript

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0:00.0	And the Welcome to Backpacker Radio episode number five. I am the Zach Bait Danger.
0:22.0	I can be I'm just going for a new trillion because I'm not happy with the one that I bestowed upon myself
0:27.2	I am Zach Badger Davis joined to my right by my co-host.
0:33.0	Hello, I'm Julianiana Chauncey.
0:35.0	And we're going to get into a very fun conversation
0:40.0	about not necessarily long distance backpacking,
0:42.0	but some mountaineering stuff. that's coming up in a second.
0:45.0	First I want to just make an exciting announcement that this episode is brought to you by the cinnamon connection.
0:54.0	That's us.
0:55.6	I'm just kidding.
0:56.4	It's not brought to you by the cinnamon connection.
0:58.4	We are the cinnamon connection.
0:59.4	You can't bring a podcast to you from yourself. It just doesn't work out. But this
1:06.0	podcast could be brought to you by you. That's because we just started a
1:12.3	Patreon page. I believe that's how it's pronounced,
1:15.2	which allows you guys to support us. It can make a very nominal
1:21.0	donation. I think it's by the month. I'm still figuring this
1:25.2	platform out. It's either by the month or by the post depending on how you said it.
1:28.1	Gotcha. It's by the month right now. Maybe if I do it by the episode, you guys would be more incentivized to give us your hard-earned money.
1:37.0	Or maybe not, I don't know, maybe people don't really want to hear more of us and they would donate to not hear us.
1:42.0	So maybe we could do like an anti-donation.
1:44.6	The shut-up fund.
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