EP 250: Beth Rodden — Overcoming Fear, the Unwinnable Game of Climbing, and the Power of Human Stories

The Nugget Climbing Podcast

Steven Dimmitt

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4.0 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Beth Rodden is one of the best female rock climbers of all time. We talked about her kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan, facing backlash after her divorce, reflections on her climbing career, her history with Magic Line, disconnecting self-worth from achievement, the unwinnable game of climbing, personal evolution, why she loves human stories, and much more. Her new book, A Light Through the Cracks: A Climber’s Story is available now.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast. This is your host, Stephen Dimett.
0:07.9	Beth Rodden is on the show today. I've been wanting to talk to Beth for a very long time.
0:12.6	We finally got a chance to do it. She's got a new book out called A Light Through the Cracks, A Climers Story.
0:18.9	It's a really beautiful book. It's a memoir about her life, and we talked
0:22.3	about many of the things in the book in our conversation today. I loved this conversation.
0:27.9	There's a lot I could say about it, but I really don't like doing intro. So I think we'll just
0:31.6	jump into it. I'll let you guys discover it for yourselves. And we also did a really fun Q&A that I'll
0:36.6	talk about more at the very end.
0:38.3	But in the meantime, please enjoy Beth Rodan.
0:43.5	Cause, cause, cast, yes. No one can do it like we do it, like we do it, like we do it, like we do it.
0:48.9	Because no one can do it like we do it like we do it.
0:58.6	It's great to meet you, Beth yeah likewise yeah how are you i'm really good yeah i'm uh i'm in a little podcast booth in estes park right now actually
1:03.3	cool that's awesome yeah there's uh have you ever been to vert co-working no i haven't been to Estes in, oh gosh, forever, I don't know, 14 years or something like that. Okay. Is it windy? Not today. It's a beautiful sunny day today. Yeah, it's great. This year it was really stormy all summer. And then now that it's fall, it's kind of like settled a little bit. The weather's been a lot more calm. So it's beautiful. Oh, sorry to have you inside on a beautiful sunny. Oh, it's okay. I've got a finger injury, so it's a good time to record a bunch of podcasts. Oh, no. Yeah, it's minor. Thank you. It'll bounce back quick. It's okay. Okay. Oh, sorry to hear that. Those are the worst. How are you?
1:45.4	I'm good. Okay. Oh, sorry to hear that. Those are the worst.
1:53.2	How are you? I'm good. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty darn good. How's Theo? We had to reschedule because Theo was sick.
2:00.2	Is he feeling better? Yeah. I feel like the class kind of hits like dominoes, you know? and so he was somewhere in the line and fell down
2:01.4	and then got back up and the next person fell down yeah it's like having a kid in school you know
2:06.6	yeah how old is theo he's 10 now okay 10 wow yeah um what would a so we're talking about
2:15.2	thursday what would a thursday be like for you if you weren't doing this?
2:20.5	Oh gosh, it just kind of depends. I don't know. I've got like laundry to fold, dishes to do.
2:29.1	And then I've got work to do if it was, it's lovely out. So I'd probably try and get some sort of form of exercise.
2:37.2	Nice.
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