Renowned rock climber! Beth Rodden, A LIGHT THROUGH THE CRACKS: A Climber's Story
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Zibby interviews renowned rock climber Beth Rodden about A LIGHT THROUGH THE CRACKS, an intense, breathtaking memoir about Beth's harrowing experience of being kidnapped at twenty years old on a climbing excursion in Kyrgyzstan, her journey through trauma, and her transformation into motherhood. Beth describes the challenge of revisiting her worst memories and shares how climbing helped her cope with the physical and mental trauma. She and Zibby also explore her relationship with fear, her recovery from various injuries, and how becoming a mother changed her perspective on life and climbing.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, hosted by me, Zibi Owens. |
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| 0:36.8 | It'll take you where you need to go. Thanks for listening. |
| 0:42.7 | Beth Rodden is the author of A Light Through the Cracks, a climber story. Beth is one of the |
| 0:47.5 | best female rock climbers of all time and a globally recognized ambassador for the outdoor community. |
| 0:53.5 | She has achieved a number of notable free climbs on El Caputin, the 3,000-foot monolith in Yosemite National Park, |
| 1:00.2 | and has also established the hardest first ascent of a crack climb ever done by a woman. |
| 1:06.6 | She has been climbing for 30 years, and she hopes to be climbing for 30 more. |
| 1:10.4 | She lives with her family in California. |
| 1:12.5 | Welcome, Beth. |
| 1:13.3 | Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss your memoir, |
| 1:17.5 | A Light Through the Cracks, A Climers Story. |
| 1:20.9 | Congratulations. |
| 1:21.8 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:23.1 | I'm honored to be here. |
| 1:24.1 | I have to say I have you to blame for being tired because I couldn't stop reading |
| 1:30.0 | your book the other night and it scared me. Like, parts of it were scary in your story and I was so |
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