Big Nature

Climbing Gold

Duct Tape Then Beer

Wilderness, Sports

4.9 • 983 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In early 1980’s Yosemite, big wall climbing was tedious, difficult and often terrifying. Enter Lydia Bradey, a 19-year-old New Zealander. She’s not good at free climbing, but she has this overwhelming desire to experience the feeling of being on one the steepest bits of El Capitan thousands of feet above the ground. There are people who dream of doing things and there are the people that go do them. Today, we talk with Lydia about the dark art of aid climbing, Mount Everest and the power of big nature. Lauren Delaunay Miller, author of Valley of Giants, joins us to help tell her story.

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0:00.0	Did you meet me, Fitz?
0:07.6	Or did I meet myself?
0:08.5	I muted you.
0:09.5	Oh, yeah, yeah, good call.
0:11.4	So you don't have to listen to me and Sonny being like, wait, so what time we're going to the gym?
0:14.3	What's happening?
0:14.9	And who's doing what?
0:15.9	Hi, Lauren.
0:16.6	I got your book in the mail yesterday.
0:18.1	This is Lauren, our awesome producer.
0:20.6	It's pretty into it.
0:21.6	Oh, thanks.
0:22.2	She's also an author, journalist, historian.
0:24.7	It basically just arrived at the house, and I was like, oh, what fortuitous timing?
0:28.3	Oh, that's sweet.
0:31.8	I'm Lauren Delano Miller.
0:33.5	I worked on the search and rescue team in Yosemite Valley for three years, I guess 2018,
0:38.9	19, and 20.
0:40.2	And how did you get interested in Yosemite climbing history?
0:43.9	Well, I'm from the East Coast, and I think for me, like, as a climber there, without a big
0:48.6	climbing community, I just read as much as I could about climbing.
0:52.4	And I think I kind of had one idea of what Yosemite
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