Beth Rodden

But that also, I think, in the mountain community specifically, we don't deal with.

Beth Rodden writes about this really well, about how we don't process our trauma and grief in the mountain community because we want to hold the people up who have died as like heroes and we want to tell their story in this really grandiose.

They were on this big adventure and then this happened and it just clouds our ability to process our own emotions about it.

Yeah.

lost his finger, I think.

What year was that? It was the Beth Rodden years and she did Meltdown in 2007.

So it was definitely 2000s.

It was early 2000s.

The climbers were

25-year-old John Dickey, 22-year-old Jason Smith, 20-year-old Beth Rodden, and her then-boyfriend, 22-year-old Tommy Caldwell.

Now, if the last two names I just said there sound familiar to you, it's probably because Beth and Tommy are both considered some of the best climbers ever, and they've been featured in tons of popular documentaries over the years, so there's a good chance that you've heard of them before.

But it's important to know that all four of these climbers were rising stars in the community back in the early 2000s.