Ep. 972: A Fine Line - Graham Zimmerman
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Mountaineering: Graham Zimmerman's Book A Fine Line – Remote Peaks, Climbing Joy vs Dark Side, Lost Friends, Climate Change Impact, and Life Balance Memoir. Graham has been climbing mountains for most of his life. He’s been to some of the farthest reaches on our planet and experienced some of the most remote peaks one is able to summit.
He recently wrote a book about his life and countless adventures, A Fine Line; Searching for Balance Among Mountains. In this engaging and provocative coming of age memoir, Zimmerman maintains a delicate balancing act: appreciating the joy that climbing brings him while recognizing that the sport has a darker side.
With thoughtful introspection, A Fine Line blends tales of mountain adventures with stories of memorials for friends killed in climbing accidents and firsthand experience of the effects of climate change.
Find A Fine Line at mountaineers.org/books/a-fine-line-searching-for-balance-among-mountains
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. Today's conversation is with a legendary |
| 0:19.0 | mountaineer and climber Graham Zimmerman. It is about his book |
| 0:24.1 | called A Fine Line. It's an engaging and provocative coming-of-age memoir of Zimmerman's life |
| 0:32.4 | and maintains this delicate balancing ad, appreciating the joy of climbing while recognizing the sport |
| 0:39.5 | has a darker side. Graham has seen how mountains get trashed with debris and waste from really |
| 0:46.8 | massive and unsustainable climbing expeditions and kind of firsthand experiences on the effects |
| 0:53.6 | that mountaineering in this sport have on climate change, |
| 0:56.6 | as well as stories of friends not making it back from major expeditions. |
| 1:01.5 | And we have a connection through ex-ped who's sponsored this show before |
| 1:05.4 | and the great folks that are over there. |
| 1:07.6 | And we're going to get into kind of the honest portrayals of the highs and |
| 1:11.4 | lows of life dedicated to the outdoors and to mountaineering. And this was a really enjoyable |
| 1:16.5 | conversation. Graham tells some great stories. So if you'd like to check out a fine line |
| 1:22.0 | searching for balance among mountains, the book that we're talking about, you can go to |
| 1:26.2 | Mountaineers.com. There's a link in the show notes. |
| 1:29.2 | Mountaineers, friends of the show, we featured many, many books from them and many authors from them |
| 1:34.0 | over the years, and they always bring their A-game with their books that they publish. |
| 1:39.0 | So thank you so much, Graham, for being on. This was a really fun conversation, and always enjoy |
| 1:44.1 | someone who's also wearing |
| 1:46.3 | a Hawaiian shirts on a daily basis. I'm one of those people and so was Graham. So we were both |
| 1:52.0 | wearing some pretty great shirts during the interview, which I wish you could see, but we don't do |
| 1:55.4 | video. All right, let's go ahead and jump in. |
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