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Activists Around the World: Mountaineers · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm welcome to stuff
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  Speaker 1: I ever told your production of I Heart Radio, and
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  Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of Activists around the World or
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  Speaker 1: change makers around the world, because we're not talking about
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  Speaker 1: people who are in activism necessarily, but they're actively changing
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  Speaker 1: perspective on misogynistic ideas in sports. Hey. Thank as In fact,
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  Speaker 1: we did a recent episode on women and mountaineering. Uh
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  Speaker 1: and Annie has apparently jumped back into the rabbit hole
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  Speaker 1: of mountaineering, So this is perfect timing, I think, um,
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  Speaker 1: and we wanted to take some time to keep celebrating
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  Speaker 1: those who are getting out there and breaking records. And
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  Speaker 1: just a reminder, mountaineering does have some controversy behind it
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  Speaker 1: and is a hazardous sport. Go check out the recent
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  Speaker 1: episode to hear more about that. Very fun episode two.
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  Speaker 1: But first, yes, we wanted to talk about Afghani mountaineer
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  Speaker 1: Fatima Sultani, who is an avid sportswoman. She is very
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  Speaker 1: involved with a lot of jiu jitsu and martial arts
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  Speaker 1: and apparently really good at it. So from her Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: seems to be really really good at it. But she
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  Speaker 1: became the youngest woman at the age of eighteen to
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  Speaker 1: climb the highest peak in Afghanistan. Uh No shack and
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  Speaker 1: I really hope I said that right, which is a
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  Speaker 1: seven thousand four or twenty four thousand five eighty feet
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  Speaker 1: high And Sultani went with a team of nine, including
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  Speaker 1: three women. Um And she decided that she needed to
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  Speaker 1: do this. She's been training for this for days. It
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  Speaker 1: was a seventeen day journey um And after completing it,
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  Speaker 1: she pretty much said this is not her only one
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  Speaker 1: um And when quoted about why she did it, she said,
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  Speaker 1: Afghan women have fought for their freedom and rights for
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  Speaker 1: twenty years. They climbed high mountains and made a name
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  Speaker 1: for themselves. I hope they are free to climb high
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  Speaker 1: mountains again inside and outside of this country. Um And
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was a beautiful statement. She's actually been
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  Speaker 1: recognized by the BBC one D Women as well and
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  Speaker 1: has done some amazing things. You should definitely go check
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  Speaker 1: out her instagram if you can, uh, because she's doing
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  Speaker 1: some big adventures, playing in the snow, doing some dancing
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  Speaker 1: in the snow. Really cute. But congratulations to her. Yes, yes, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: uh And we have records that have been broken on
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  Speaker 1: the summit of Mount Everest as well, including forty eight
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  Speaker 1: year old Lapka Sherpa, an Apolese mountaineer who continues to
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  Speaker 1: break records in two and who we did mention in
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  Speaker 1: our previous mountaineering episode which has a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 1: about the climbing of Everest in general, So again, go
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  Speaker 1: check that out. Sherpa broke her own record for the
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  Speaker 1: most summits of the world's highest mountains by a woman.
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  Speaker 1: She achieved ten summits up Mount Everest, which is eight thousand,
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred forty six point eight six meters or twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine thousand, thirty four point six nine feet And that's
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  Speaker 1: the eight thousand club. I think I talked about that, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about that in a few minutes
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  Speaker 1: as well. Whoa exciting uh And three sisters from Roe
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  Speaker 1: Walling Valley and I hope I didn't butcher that broke
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  Speaker 1: the record for most sisters to climb Everest together. I
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  Speaker 1: love that. That's a record. That's yeah. Um. Sisters Dawa
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  Speaker 1: Futi Scherpa, sharing Namia Scherpa, and Nima Jenu Serpa became
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  Speaker 1: the first group of three sisters to climb together as
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  Speaker 1: a family up Everest. Um and this is just one
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  Speaker 1: of several. The sisters have named their expedition as three
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  Speaker 1: Sisters on seven Summits. That's great, uh. The sisters have
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  Speaker 1: plans to climb all the highest summits on all seven continents.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just for the glory and for the guts,
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  Speaker 1: for the recognition, but in a dedication to their father,
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  Speaker 1: who was an avid climber as well and had climbed
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  Speaker 1: Everest in two I lost eight fingers due to frost bite,
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  Speaker 1: but kept climbing until two thousand seven. And then there
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  Speaker 1: is the All Black Expedition, which was the first time
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  Speaker 1: the entire member of the party comming was black. The
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  Speaker 1: team comprised of seven members from Kenya and the United States,
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  Speaker 1: including Rosemary Saul from Seattle and Abby Dion from Florida.
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  Speaker 1: They celebrated their successful summit in May of two UH.
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  Speaker 1: And lastly, we know we are missing several others we
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  Speaker 1: probably should be revisiting. And if you know, some audience
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  Speaker 1: listeners pleased in the to us because we love them
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  Speaker 1: and we want to recognize all of them. But we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to recognize Norwegian climber Kristen Harrilla, who is on
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  Speaker 1: track to break the super Peaks record and this is
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  Speaker 1: what we were talking about, the eight thousand meter club UM.
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  Speaker 1: And she is only three mountains away from doing this
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  Speaker 1: in record time. Uh. And she just completed summitting up
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  Speaker 1: one of Pakistan's highest mountains, which, by the way, there
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  Speaker 1: are several in Pakistan. Uh, that seems really really dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: There's five as in fact, including the k to the
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  Speaker 1: world's second highest mountain UM. And apparently there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people doing this truck right now the tourism department,
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  Speaker 1: so there was at least eighteen hundred and this was
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  Speaker 1: like a few days ago. Eight termits have been given
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  Speaker 1: out to climb uh this mountain or to submit this mountain,
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  Speaker 1: so it's pretty big um. And if you wanted to know,
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  Speaker 1: there's only about forty people in history who've submitted all
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  Speaker 1: fourteen of the super peaks and of all times, apparently
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  Speaker 1: the last record was held by a Napali climber normal Purja.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm so sorry if I said that wrong. Who
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  Speaker 1: did it in six months and six days? And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she has until early November to complete her quest to
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  Speaker 1: beat his time, so we'll definitely be watching for that.
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  Speaker 1: And she said about climbing and why it's so important
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  Speaker 1: to her, she says, in history and until now it's
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  Speaker 1: been the strong, macho men going out climbing mountains. When
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  Speaker 1: I talk to people that are not in the sport,
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  Speaker 1: they believe that men are more capable than women. If
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  Speaker 1: we're going to change, we need to get attention and
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  Speaker 1: show that women are just as capable. Um and all
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  Speaker 1: of that. So she has three remaining mountains, which are
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  Speaker 1: its bear with me with these names, Chow Oh You
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  Speaker 1: which is in Nepal China, Manta Slew which is in Nepal,
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  Speaker 1: and she Shi Pagma in China. And if I butchered that,
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  Speaker 1: I am so sorry. Y'all come yell at me. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, so congratulations to her on her truck. And
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  Speaker 1: we were definitely going to keep watching across our fingers. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: so much inspiring stuff. I'm so happy to see and
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  Speaker 1: hear these kind of quotes about it. So yeah, listeners,
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  Speaker 1: if you know anybody we should talk about in this
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  Speaker 1: or any other kind of similar field, we would love
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