mountaineering – Brady Carlson

A 10 Month Old Kitten Once Climbed The Matterhorn… Somehow (Cool Weird Awesome 844)
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A 10 Month Old Kitten Once Climbed The Matterhorn… Somehow (Cool Weird Awesome 844)

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7 09, 2022

A 10 Month Old Kitten Once Climbed The Matterhorn… Somehow (Cool Weird Awesome 844)

By Brady Carlson|2022-09-07T08:45:15-04:00September 7, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: cats, Denmark, Led Zeppelin, mountaineering, mountains, music history, rock music|

Today in 1950, the Coshocton, Ohio Tribune carried a news story with one heck of a headline: “Kitten Scales Matterhorn: Veteran Mountain Climbers Are Astonished”! Here's how the cat, later nicknamed Matt, got there.

How Two Deaf Mountaineers Plan To Climb The Seven Summits (Cool Weird Awesome 828)
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How Two Deaf Mountaineers Plan To Climb The Seven Summits (Cool Weird Awesome 828)

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16 08, 2022

How Two Deaf Mountaineers Plan To Climb The Seven Summits (Cool Weird Awesome 828)

By Brady Carlson|2022-08-16T10:38:38-04:00August 16, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: communication, deafness, geography, islands, mountaineering|

For mountaineers, success and safety can depend on good communication. A piece in Outside magazine featured two Deaf climbers who have their own communication system when they’re climbing, and they plan to use that system in climbing the highest peaks on each continent.