EP 209: Graham Zimmerman — Going to the Mountains to Learn, the 100-Year Plan, and Imperfect Advocacy

The Nugget Climbing Podcast

Steven Dimmitt

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4.0 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Graham Zimmerman is an award-winning alpinist, writer, filmmaker, and climate advocate. We talked about his harrowing ascent of Mt. Bradley in his early 20s, getting injured in New Zealand, how his relationship with risk has evolved, losing friends in the mountains, the mystery of passion, the 100-year-plan, falling in love with his wife Shannon, getting shut down on K2 by global warming, the climate crisis, the concept of imperfect advocacy, and his new book, A Fine Line: Searching for Balance Among Mountains.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast. This is your host, Stephen Dimmit. My guest today is
0:08.9	Graham Zimmerman. Graham is an award-winning alpinist, writer, filmmaker, and climate advocate.
0:15.2	His new book is a fine line searching for balance among mountains. I loved it. I read his book in preparation for this interview.
0:23.4	He read some segments of the book in the podcast, so you guys will get a feel for what it's all about.
0:30.0	And yeah, we covered a lot of ground in this episode. Graham shared some harrowing stories from
0:35.9	the mountains, times where he barely escaped with his life,
0:40.0	some of the major inflection points in his career, and how his feelings about risk have changed
0:46.1	over the years, falling in love, getting shut down on one of his dream climbs by global warming,
0:52.4	and how that spurred his career in climate advocacy.
0:56.7	That led to us talking about climate advocacy and what all of us can do to try to make a difference in the climate crisis.
1:04.1	And I loved it. Graham had a unique perspective. I've never heard anyone talk about climate the way that he did.
1:09.9	And it left me really hopeful and optimistic
1:12.2	about the future so I think you guys will find it interesting and yeah so much more we talked for a
1:17.6	couple hours covered a lot of ground it was really great I hope you guys enjoy all right without
1:22.9	further ado here's Graham Zimmerman.
1:42.2	I haven't really done much prep for this, Stephen. It's okay. I have. I've been talking about the book a lot. So I've got an outline. I'm going to go. All right. You wrote a whole book, so I don't think you can, I don't think you can go wrong. That's plenty of, uh, there's all sorts of shit we can talk about. There's plenty of preparation, I'm sure, involved in writing a book. Yeah, let's kick this thing off, man.
2:02.8	It's great to see you again. You do. How are you? I'm great. I'm at home. I just finished the
2:09.7	book tour that wrapped up in Michigan at the Michigan Ice Festival. I think that was talk number 30.
2:17.2	So it's been a lot, but it's been really special to be able to get out with our community, share
2:25.3	stories from the book, share kind of some of my philosophy around alpine climbing, and share
2:29.8	some kind of vision for how we as folks invested in the mountain environment can can drive climate action.
2:36.9	So it's been really special and it's also really nice to be home.
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