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Women Who Travel Podcast: Mountains, and the People Who Climb Them
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Treacherous mountain ascents like Everest have long been mythologized by men. But this week, Lale chats with two women who are achieving extraordinary feats at high altitudes: Jen Peedom, an award-winning Australian film director, who makes documentaries about mountaineering, and Sasha DiGiulian, a professional rock climber who went from winning indoor competitions to going on treacherous outdoor climbs. DiGiulian has accomplished 28 First Female Ascents around the world, including a First Female Ascent on the North Face of the Eiger, the highest wall of the Alps.
Lale Arikoglu: Hello, I'm Lale Arikoglu and welcome to another episode of Women Who Travel. Today, I'm talking to two outdoors people about their relationship with nature, physical challenges, and their search for adventure. They're women who climb and tackle a sense that were long the preserve of men.
Jen Peedom is an Australian film director who makes documentaries about mountaineering. And relatively early on in her career, she chose to make a film about Mount Everest.
Jen Peedom: I was the only woman. There were very few women climbing on Everest expeditions at that point. Maybe there would be one in an expedition of 20 or 30 people. I think on that first one, I was the only woman.
LA: And Sasha DiGiulian, a professional rock climber who went from winning indoor competitions all over the world, to going on treacherous outdoor climbs that even require her to camp out on cliff faces. And full disclosure, she's also engaged to my good friend.
Sasha DiGiulian: Something that motivates me as a professional climber is going after these, kind of like benchmark achievements within my sport and seeing if I could be the first human or the first woman to accomplish something that is physically very challenging. I love visiting new countries. My career at this point has taken me to over 50 different countries around the world. And I love learning about just like, new places to visit through the expeditions that take me there.
LA: But first, how Jen Peedom stumbled into adventure filmmaking.
JP: I grew up in, in Canberra, in Australia, so, um, the capital. It's a sort of relatively small town surrounded by a lot of nature. And my parents took us out to, you know, all of our holidays were camping and trekking and, and all of that kind of thing. So, I sort of learned, I guess, to love the, uh, outdoors. I was the youngest of three kids, so I was always the smallest. By the time I was about six, we were out and, um, back, back on camping overnight, cross country skiing up mountains.
And I think, um, there were probably times where I
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