Ep. 1040: Climbing 8,000-Meter Peaks in Winter - Revisited - Bernadette McDonald
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Originally published October 19, 2020
After growing up on a farm in Saskatchewan, Bernadette got the taste of mountain living on a family trip to Banff, Alberta. She was so awestruck by the Canadian Rockies that she eventually moved there and worked at the Banff Centre, directing the Banff Mountain Festivals and starting a new division – Mountain Culture at The Banff Centre.
After 20 years of volunteering at the Banff Film Festival, she began getting involved in book projects through the Centre and eventually starting writing books about mountaineering history.
Today’s episode features a discussion about Bearnadette’s latest book, Winter 8000: Climbing the World’s Highest Mountains in the Coldest Season. It’s a harrowing tale of the history of winter ascents and what challenges are left to face in the world of 8,000-meter climbing!
Pick up a copy of Winter 8000 at Mountaineers.org
Learn more about Bernadette at BernadetteMcdonald.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast for this week's throwback Thursday episode, which is really a Friday now. |
| 0:14.8 | I am playing Bernadette McDonald's episode about climbing the world's highest mountains in the coldest season, |
| 0:23.1 | the winter. And we're talking about the Himalayas. And we are talking about it in this book |
| 0:28.0 | that she wrote called Winter 8,000. You can find it, mountaneers.org. There is a link of it in the |
| 0:34.1 | show notes. It came out in 2020, which is when this podcast came out. |
| 0:38.1 | And the reason I'm throwing it back is because we are going to be talking to Bernad |
| 0:41.7 | again very soon. And so I was like, you know what? It'd be a great time to revisit her episode. |
| 0:47.3 | We will have another episode with her coming out in the next couple months. So stay tuned for that. |
| 0:52.4 | And with that new book, we will be doing a giveaway. So |
| 0:56.2 | just be on the lookout for that. Be paying attention. And I hope you enjoy this harrowing tale of |
| 1:02.6 | some of the craziest and wild journeys and adventures in the history of winter as |
| 1:08.1 | since on the world's 8,000 meter peaks in the Himalayas. |
| 1:23.4 | All right, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:27.3 | I'm your host, Mason Gravely, and today we're talking to All right, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 1:55.3 | I'm your host, Mason Gravely. And today we're talking to Bernadette McDonald. Burnadette, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Yeah, yeah, you're welcome. Thank you for joining. You know, we're going to be talking about your book. Folks heard a little bit about you in the show's intro. but I'd love to, so we know we're going to be talking about your book, Winter, 8,000, talking about the 8,000 meter peaks all around the world that folks are climbing in the wintertime. |
| 2:01.5 | But I would love to go all the way back, if you don't mind, and hear about, you know, where did you grow up? I know you have a career in the outdoors and in mountaineering and writing about it. You know, where did this start for |
| 2:08.8 | you? Have you always been into this or did you grow up somewhere far from that world? |
| 2:14.0 | Yeah, I grew up definitely far from that world. I grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan. |
| 2:20.6 | And yeah, it was pretty flat, actually. The first, the first I ever saw the mountains was when |
| 2:27.7 | I was 11 years old. We went on a family winter vacation. Here comes the winter theme. |
| 2:38.0 | But being a farm, that's when my dad had time off. |
| 2:39.6 | So that's when we went on our trips. |
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