Under the Radar
Out There
Willow Belden
4.6 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Christine Boskoff was a mountaineer who pushed boundaries and set records.
She climbed mountains no North American woman had ever summited, and she was the only American woman to have reached the top of six of the world's 8,000-meter peaks. She was also a well-respected guide.
But despite her impressive resume, Chris's story went largely untold — until this year.
This spring, writer Johanna Garton published a book called Edge of the Map, chronicling Chris's rise in the mountaineering world. Johanna joins us to talk about how Chris got her start, the challenges she faced as a woman in a man's realm, and the complicated moral questions surrounding her death on a sacred mountain.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Willow Belden and you're listening to Out There, the podcast that explores big questions through intimate stories outdoors. |
| 0:10.9 | If you're interested in the environment and in young adult fiction, here's a podcast you might enjoy. |
| 0:18.3 | From Gen Z Media, the Peabody Award-winning producers behind hit podcasts like |
| 0:23.6 | Six Minutes and the Unexplainable disappearance of Mars Patel comes becoming mother nature. |
| 0:31.4 | When Chloe is sent off to live with her mysterious and eccentric grandmother, she learns an |
| 0:37.2 | unbelievable secret. |
| 0:39.3 | Grandma Ivy is none other than Mother Nature herself. |
| 0:43.6 | And Chloe is next in line to assume the power and responsibility of the job. |
| 0:49.0 | Can a 12-year-old learn to balance the entire world's ecosystem while just trying to fit in at her new school? |
| 0:56.6 | Only Mother Nature knows. You can listen to becoming Mother Nature wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:04.4 | So I recently went on a seven-day backpacking trip. Now, I've done quite a bit of backpacking, and so most of my gear is |
| 1:13.4 | very dialed in. But one thing I've been experimenting with is my water purification system. |
| 1:20.2 | When I threw hiked the Colorado Trail, I had one of those pump-style filters. It worked well, |
| 1:26.0 | but it was annoying to have to crouch by water sources to |
| 1:28.6 | filter my water. On a few subsequent trips, I used purification drops. I like the simplicity of them, |
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