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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 (born 1980) US, rock climber and first female to match the highest male grades in traditional climbing with Meltdown 5.14d (9a) Jordan Romero (born 1996) US, became the youngest person to climb Everest on May 22, 2010, aged 13 years, 10 months, 10 days [ 4 ]
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 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. The following ...
Beth Rodden. June 12, 2024 at 12:01 PM. The Torres Sector in Torres del Paine national park, Patagonia, Chile. Credit - Lucas Vallecillos—VWPics/Redux.
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]
[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]