Ep 10 - The 69th Summit - Steven Lozano

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4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Climber and backcountry skier Steven Lozano summited Mount St. Helens with a friend on a beautiful April day. When two climbers joined them on top, one of them, who was making his 69th ascent of the mountain, asked Steven to take a photo of him with Mt. Rainier in the background. What happened next will be seared into Lozano's memory forever.

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0:00.0	Welcome back. I'm Ashley. Your host is for The Sharp End. A podcast brought to you by the American Alpine club.
0:17.0	I'd like to apologize for the in and out internet connection in today's interview which will cover an
0:23.9	incident that happened in 2010. Another thing my interview he had
0:28.5	difficulty with was trying to find a quiet place in a room with little echo.
0:32.4	He decided to go in his trying to find a quiet place in a room with little echo.
0:33.7	He decided to go in his partner's yoga studio.
0:36.8	To combat the echo issue in that space,
0:39.8	he built a fort with yoga blocks and yoga mats around his body. Go to
0:45.4	www. American Alpine Club.org slash sharp dash end dash podcast to see pictures of the fort he built.
0:56.8	During our conversation today,
0:58.8	he told me an incredibly tragic story.
1:02.4	He shared something that he saw firsthand, something that he can never, ever
1:08.2	unsee. Meet Stephen. So my name is Stephen.
1:15.0	I currently live in Quito Ecuador.
1:17.8	I'm 35 years old.
1:19.8	I'm originally from Conifer, Colorado, and I've spent a fair amount of time up in Northwest, living
1:27.7	in Portland, Oregon for a while.
1:29.7	I have a background in big wall climbing, mostly vertical climbing, a little mountaineering and a few good seasons before heading down here of backcountry skiing.
1:43.0	This is where it leads my story today.
1:45.0	He is a good friend of mine and I and another partner decided to do a January 5th summit skin summit of St. Helens.
1:57.0	And for the listeners, Mount St. Helens is an active volcano about 90 miles south of Seattle, Washington and about 50 miles northeast of
2:05.2	Portland, Oregon and rises about 8,300 feet or 2,500 meters.
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