Call For Help: The Story of Kate Matrosova
Lost In The Woods Podcast
lostinthewoods
3.9 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | One, two, three, four. |
| 0:16.2 | Hi, guys. I'm Marie. |
| 0:17.7 | And I'm Maddie. |
| 0:18.6 | And we are here today recording Lost in the Woods. Welcome. |
| 0:23.0 | So we didn't have an episode last week. We didn't do a red couch report. There really wasn't anything |
| 0:28.2 | crazy going on. I think we did do one little update on our story or something like that, but we're |
| 0:34.8 | happy to be back this week. Today we are bringing you the story of |
| 0:38.4 | Kate Matrosova. Who would hike across New Hampshire's highest peaks in a desk-to-dawn hike |
| 0:46.0 | on President's Day weekend? We were just talking about mountaineering because this is mountaineering. |
| 0:52.6 | This might be low-level mountaineering for like real mountaineers. This might be low level mountaineering for like real |
| 0:55.3 | mountaineers. Yeah, I feel like if you are like recommended to have mountaineering gear on a hike, |
| 1:02.5 | it's mountaineering. Like helmets, ropes. I mean, I kind of, I kind of agree with that somewhat. |
| 1:08.0 | Like there are some mountains that I've climbed where I |
| 1:11.0 | used or needed some form of mountaineering gear, but I wouldn't call it mountaineering. It just |
| 1:16.7 | depends on the rating of it. But this hike, what Kate is doing is 100% mountaineering. It's just |
| 1:26.5 | less scary mountaineering than the goals that extreme mountaineers have. |
| 1:33.4 | So like when Kate first started talking about doing this hike because she just really wanted to do it, |
| 1:38.4 | some of her mountaineering friends were like, oh, that one's not even worth like putting on your list. |
| 1:42.7 | It's not even worth saying you accomplished that. |
| 1:45.2 | Like, this is considered low level for mountaineers. |
| 1:48.6 | But extreme for hikers or backpackers. |
| 1:53.0 | I would call this mountaineering. |
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