The Approach
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Adriana Brownlee is a mountaineering pioneer. The British woman became the youngest female to summit K2 - the second-highest mountain on Earth - in 2022. But mountains are changing and becoming more unpredictable because of climate change. High mountain areas are warming faster than the rest of the planet, meaning glaciers are shrinking and permafrost holding mountain faces together are disappearing. How are mountaineers like Adriana adapting and what implications are there for communities living in the foothills of these mountains? Adriana investigates by visiting Chamonix in France, the mountaineering capital of Europe and home to Mont Blanc.
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| 0:00.0 | Sport, but not as you know it. |
| 0:03.0 | Nothing is ever quite as expected. |
| 0:05.0 | Amazing sports stories from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:08.0 | If the story is wriggly, contentious, or hard to tame, I'll cover it. |
| 0:13.0 | Listen now, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:19.0 | Okay, two, come for. |
| 0:22.0 | We made it. thousand meters. Some head is over there. |
| 0:30.0 | Looks so close, but so far. |
| 0:37.2 | I'm Adjuna Brownley and that's me on the second highest mountain in the world. In 2022 I became the youngest woman to have climbed both Mount Everest and K2. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm a mountaineer, someone who has dedicated their hobby, their career, their life to the mountains. |
| 0:54.8 | When you're literally on top of the world you feel so small and you imagine the |
| 1:00.2 | mountains to be there forever. |
| 1:02.1 | But our mountains are changing and mountaineering is becoming |
| 1:06.1 | more unpredictable because of climate change and the people who live near these mountains are also |
| 1:11.8 | at risk. For this edition of the documentary from the BBC |
| 1:16.8 | World Service I'm taking you thousands of meters up into the clouds to explore the impact |
| 1:22.2 | of climate change on the world of mountaineering. |
| 1:26.8 | This is the approach. So today we're off to Shamini. |
| 1:32.6 | We're going to explore a little bit in the glaciers, |
| 1:35.4 | in the heart of the Alps. |
| 1:37.4 | That's where you have all the big players |
| 1:41.4 | in the mountaineering world live around there and train around there. So yeah, it's the epicenter for climbing. |
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