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Beth Rodden (born April 5, 1980) is an American rock climber known for her ascents of hard single-pitch traditional climbing routes. She was the youngest woman to climb 5.14a (8b+) and is one of the only women in the world to have redpointed a 5.14c (8c+) traditional climbing graded climb.
Tommy Caldwell, left, and Beth Rodden are surrounded by the media as they talk about their ordeal after they were taken captive, during a news conference held in Davis, California on August 24 ...
Beth Rodden is a professional rock climber who, along with three other climbers, was kidnapped and held hostage by Islamic militants in 2000 while on a climbing trip in Kyrgyzstan.
He was aged just 21 when he, his then-girlfriend Beth Rodden and two other climbers were captured and held hostage by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan while on a climbing trip in ...
Caldwell and three fellow climbers Beth Rodden, John Dickey, and Jason 'Singer' Smith were held hostage for six days by rebels in Kyrgyzstan in August 2000. Caldwell pushed one of the kidnappers off a cliff, and subsequently escaped to government soldiers. [7] [8] A few weeks later they learned that the man had survived the fall. [9]
Over the Edge (2002) is a non-fiction book by American author Greg Child, chronicling the 2000 kidnapping of mountain climbers Beth Rodden, Tommy Caldwell, Jason "Singer" Smith, and John Dickey by Islamic guerrilla fighters in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan.
Beth Rodden. June 12, 2024 at 9:01 AM. The Torres Sector in Torres del Paine national park, Patagonia, Chile. Credit - Lucas Vallecillos—VWPics/Redux.
[11] [12] On October 14, 2005, Tommy Caldwell and Beth Rodden became the third and fourth people (and the first couple) to free climb The Nose. The husband-wife team took four days on the ascent, swapping leads with each climber free climbing each pitch, either leading or following. [13]