The Ledge

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

Snap, Glynn, Storytelling, Wnyc, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Performing Arts, Washington, Society & Culture/documentary, Arts/performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Strapped in a harness, on the edge of a mountain, the snow bridge lets out a hollow crack as it gives way. The story of two climbers whose fates are intertwined by a length of rope.

Big thanks to Jim Davidson for sharing his story!

Jim wrote a book with Kevin Vaughan about surviving the fall on Mt. Rainier, called The Ledge. He also wrote a book about his experiences during and after the Nepal earthquake called The Next Everest. Check them out!

Original score by Renzo Gorrio, produced by Justin Kramon, artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 14 - Episode 31

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0:00.0	Snap, Judgment, Studios
0:30.0	It's been lucky, not Elon Musk's lucky, but lucky, lucky.
0:37.0	A lot of things have had nothing to do with kind of sort of fell into place for me.
0:43.0	Recently, I got to visit Birmingham, Alabama, some dear friends, beautiful wedding,
0:49.0	arrived in town a few hours before the ceremony.
0:53.0	So I get in line for a ticket to walk through the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
0:58.0	It's an amazing place.
1:00.0	Chronicles the history of racial struggle, some are trying so hard to stop our kids from learning.
1:06.0	The bombings, the lynchings, Martin Luther King Jr.'s notes from a Birmingham jail.
1:12.0	And you feel the bravery, the power of even small children standing at the fire hoses,
1:21.0	attack dogs with the full authority of the state or rate against them.
1:27.0	Regular people, and watching the news footage here in the interviews,
1:35.0	a weep, just witnessing a glimpse of their courage, their conviction of which I am a direct beneficiary.
1:47.0	And of course, seeing this feeling is it occurs to me that it's not really luck at all.
1:54.0	I slide it my way.
1:57.0	It's sacrifice.
1:59.0	So many heroes, so much suffering.
2:03.0	They sacrifice not just for me, but for us and sacrifice.
2:08.0	The placing something ahead of yourself.
2:13.0	It's a theme. It's woven to our most important stories.
2:18.0	What is the whole of Christianity?
2:21.0	It's not the story of a sacrifice.
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