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☆ Tommy Caldwell: He lost a finger and survived a kidnapping. Then, this pro climber took on a 9,000-foot ‘death-trap’
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-27 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But after an agonizing Achilles injury that resulted in numerous surgeries, bolts in his foot and two years off climbing, Caldwell, then in his 40s, was worried about his future. Caldwell explains that the cycling portion of the trip helped with his rehabilitation and contributed to the adventure. You remove all expectation, it gives you the chance to do better than you think you’re going to do, and everybody else thinks you’re going to do. Tommy Caldwell climbing above Lake Louise in Banff National Park in Canada. Taylor Shaffer/National Geographic“You become addicted to it, but then, eventually, you’re going to come across things like adversity that you don’t plan.

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☆ Beth Rodden: After her kidnapping, she was ‘embarrassed’ to feel traumatized. Now, this climber is learning to be vulnerable
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Weeks after being taken hostage by captors from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, American climber Beth Rodden was back home – but plagued by nightmares of her ordeal. On their return to the US, Rodden was baffled to find that people within the climbing community were inclined to “celebrate” their ordeal. And obviously, this was a harrowing tale,” Rodden tells CNN Sport 24 years on from the incident. Rodden struggled with insomnia and nightmares, and although she went to a few therapy sessions she says she didn’t really open up. People that are postmenopausal that are older, younger – I feel like it’s just becoming a more inclusive, well-rounded community,” she added.

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☆ A Rock Climber Finds a Softer Strength - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Beth Rodden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I don’t know what time it was when my husband at the time, the rock climber Tommy Caldwell, finally scrambled over the summit. The sun had risen sometime during the first part of the climb and had set again hours later. He had just completed the second free ascent of the Direct Route on the northwest face of Half Dome, a 2,000-foot climb in Yosemite National Park. The climber Todd Skinner spent 61 days in 1993 working to establish the Direct Route, then considered the most difficult big wall climb in the world, before reaching the top. Hanging in the middle of Half Dome was an ordinary thing.

Persons: Tommy Caldwell, Todd Skinner, Tommy, Skinner Locations: Yosemite

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