Ep. 594: A Lifetime of Mountaineering - Gerry Roach
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired June 1, 2015.
Gerry Roach, the well-known author of Colorado's Fourteeners, shares stories, advice, lessons learned, and wisdom from his more than 2,000 climbs. From the seven summits to all of Colorado's 13ers and 14ers, Gerry has been there, done that. What's more, he has shared his experiences via 15 wildly popular books he has authored on climbing; guides and narratives.
Colorado's Fourteeners, 3rd Edition
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| 0:43.4 | My one word answer is joy. We get joy from climbing. And that we can bring down with us. |
| 0:51.3 | Never mind a paradigm for all these complicated life things. |
| 0:54.7 | Just coming down filled with joy, you can transmit that to other people. |
| 1:02.9 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 1:05.8 | Trying to help you find adventure every day in any stage of life. |
| 1:09.3 | You're going to hear from explorers, adventures, |
| 1:12.5 | business owners, and anyone living their life a little more out of the box than usual. |
| 1:30.1 | Hey folks, hope you're having a good week so far. |
| 1:37.9 | Today's episode is coming at us all the way back from episode 42 back in 2015, |
| 1:41.9 | when the year the show started, so a while ago. |
| 1:46.7 | But we are interviewing, honestly, a legend. Jerry Roach kurt is host in this one he goes into some of jerry's achievements but he is very well known as pretty |
| 1:52.8 | much he pretty much wrote the book on colorado 14ers literally and figuratively um everyone who does 14ers |
| 2:00.4 | not everyone but many people who do 14ers have a copy |
| 2:03.6 | of his book called Colorado's 14ers. And he has climbed all the seven summits. He's been all over |
| 2:08.8 | the world, climbing thousands, literally thousands of peaks. Pretty interesting guy and a great |
| 2:16.0 | interview, but I wanted to throw it all the way back to a really really old one a legend and uh yeah i hope you enjoy hope you're having a good week and we would love it if you just shared the show told your friends about it um you know we're growing still with steady growth it's really cool to see that every month we continue to |
| 2:35.1 | hit new records um so continue to share continue to tell folks get the word out there these are |
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