Rock Climber Beth Rodden is Climbing Back from bolt hard Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 3 min 16 sec
✓ Published: 24-Apr-2013

Description:
For more than a decade, Outdoor Research Athlete Ambassador Beth Rodden proved that women could climb just as hard—if not harder—than men. She was the youngest woman to ever climb 5.14, climbing To Bolt or Not to Be (5.14a, 8b+) at Oregon’s Smith Rock in 1998. She went on to co-establish the first free ascent of Lurking Fear (5.10 A3) on Yosemite’s El Capitan in 2000, establish the first free ascent of Smith Rock’s The Optimist (5.14b) in 2005, and redpoint Yosemite’s Meltdown (propo