EP 258: Louise Shepherd — “The Lynn Hill of Australia” on Her Dirtbag Days, Flying Breasts, & How to Save Arapiles Climbing

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4.0 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Louise Shepherd is a living legend, and has been called “The Lynn Hill of Australia”. We talked about climbing in the late 70s, her formative experiences, dirtbagging in Arapiles, onsighting some of the first 5.12s in Yosemite, access issues threatening Aralipes climbing, putting cultural heritage into context, and how climbers can help save Arapiles climbing. How You Can Help: https://www.climbingvictoria.com/arapiles

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast.
0:04.3	This is your host, Stephen Dimmit.
0:06.4	My guest today is Louise Shepard, and this is kind of a two-part episode.
0:11.5	Lou is a legendary climbing figure from Australia.
0:14.5	She's been described as the Lynn Hill of Australia.
0:17.6	She started climbing in 1978 and was possibly the first woman to on-site 512B in
0:24.7	1981, so way ahead of her time and she's put up a lot of first ascents and things along those
0:29.3	lines. I wanted to chat with Lou and get to know her and hear some stories about how she got
0:34.7	into climbing. That was really fun. And we also wanted to inform you guys
0:38.3	about what's going on at Mount Arapolis. Mount Arapolis climbing access is in danger. So we spent
0:45.1	the second half of this episode talking about what's going on at Arapolis, what can be done,
0:50.2	and how all of you can pitch in and help. So I will put links to all the things we talked about
0:55.8	where you can go and donate money
0:58.0	or write emails to key figures
1:01.1	to have your voice be heard
1:02.2	and things along those lines.
1:03.3	I'll put links to all that stuff right there
1:04.8	in your podcast app if you have the time
1:07.4	and the means to help out.
1:08.5	That'd be great.
1:09.8	All right, please enjoy enjoy Louise Shepard.
1:12.2	So we're about to you based.
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