Ep. 939: The Sharp End of Life and Raising Alex Honnold - Revisited - Dierdre Wolownick
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired April 26, 2019
Long before her son was doing some of the most incredible climbing in the world and her daughter was solo bike touring around the west, Dierdre was living a life full of adventure. From moving to different countries and starting orchestras from scratch to raising two kids by herself and working much more than fulltime, Dierdre enjoyed taking on out-of-the-box challenges and seeing what she’s made of.
Never to be one to think of age as a limitation, Dierdre started running at the age of 55 and began climbing at 58. Within a few years, she was running marathons and by 66 she became the oldest woman to climb El Capitan, the same rock that her son, Alex, would free solo. It’s evident in both her children that they were raised by someone with lots of room to live outside the box. We hope you enjoy this conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | My name is Mason. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm the host here. |
| 0:25.9 | And a quick apology before we get going. |
| 0:29.1 | If you saw the most recent episode with Chris Fisher, I had to take it down because I heard that there was, when went to edit it I must have just not listened |
| 0:39.4 | thoroughly enough but there was a little bit of cursing in it and usually not a huge deal but |
| 0:44.9 | I wanted to edit it out because I've heard from a lot of people who listen to this show with |
| 0:49.5 | their families with little kids and I've heard you know folks, folks even playing it in their classrooms. So just |
| 0:55.7 | always want to make sure this shows family friendly. So I just took it down. Nothing against Chris. |
| 1:00.0 | I should have said something. But it's totally fine. In fact, sometimes I cuss to and I have to go |
| 1:05.6 | back and make sure I edit it out because I love to keep it conversational. And I like folks |
| 1:10.1 | to just feel comfortable |
| 1:11.3 | on and it wasn't anything outrageous I just it was enough that I needed to take it down anyway |
| 1:16.5 | if you ever hear anything in the show like an audio just just editing was weird or something |
| 1:24.0 | sounded off I very well could have made a mistake. |
| 1:30.5 | I've made plenty of them over the last few years. |
| 1:37.7 | In fact, an episode recently, I accidentally overlaid two clips of audio together, |
| 1:41.0 | and I heard from some of y'all, and I went in and fixed that too. |
| 1:47.6 | So anything at all, always feel free to reach out. Mason at Adventure Sportspodcast.com is my email or just, you know, reach out on social media. You can find me on Instagram and I respond |
| 1:55.2 | pretty quickly on there. So anything at all, if you ever hear anything, just sounds weird, |
| 1:59.5 | timing's weird or just, you know, there's a mishap or cussing or anything like that. Just reach out and we'll take care of it. So thanks for the listeners doing that. And thanks for Micah for catching that. Today's episode is Dierdre Wollinick. We've had Dierdre on twice now, and I've had a handful of conversations with |
| 2:19.7 | her outside of the podcast. And you might not recognize her name, but she's the mother of Alex |
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