Cassidy Randall, author of Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All Women’s Ascent of Denali

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Episode 483 of the Sports Media Podcast features author and adventure writer Cassidy Randall, whose latest book is "Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All Women’s Ascent of Denali." In this podcast, Randall discusses her book that chronicles the first ever all-female ascent of Denali, the tallest peak in North America; the void in the canon of adventure/exploration stories featuring women; why she is drawn as a writer to women who achieve these remarkable adventure feats; what makes Denali so tough to climb; how you research a story that happened 55 years ago; the challenges of book promotion and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.4	I'm your host, Richard Dutch.
0:44.3	My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:46.1	One guest on this episode, it's a little different for this podcast.
0:49.5	You're probably used to conversations about what's going on on in the sports media,
0:53.6	you know, or will bring
0:54.3	somebody on like Al Michaels.
0:56.1	But this is a little off the beaten path, and I think you're going to enjoy it.
1:01.5	Cassidy Randall is one of the great writers in the United States.
1:05.3	Google her name and see what comes up.
1:08.1	I was very fortunate to serve a couple years ago as the editor on the
1:12.3	year's best sports writing book. That's that annual anthology used to be the best American sports
1:16.9	writing. They've changed the title on that. And she was in my book, wrote one of the greatest
1:24.1	stories like I've ever read in print. and she's just such a gifted writer.
1:30.1	And when I saw that she was debuting a new book, I definitely wanted to get her on.
1:36.0	And that book comes out this week.
1:37.6	It is 30 below.
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