The Broad Beta Podcast
The Broad Beta Podcast and BroadBeta.com are spaces to openly share women’s and genderqueer experiences of climbing, skiing, and other mountain adventures, from the ordinary to the heroic. Our contributors tell stories that foster wildness within, and outside, ourselves. Through these stories, we hope to inspire and empower anyone who listens. Cover photo by @nathannorby of co-founder Jeannie Wall.
The Broad Beta Podcast
Steph Abegg: Information Sharing in the Climbing World - An Interview
Steph Abegg has become well known in the alpine climbing world for her detailed trip reports and route overlays on high quality photos of multipitch rock climbs. She describes herself as a climber, photographer, adventurer, and a math and data nerd, with a passion for displaying data in creative ways. Steph's background in math and data analysis are evident in her well-organized trip reports, which she aims to make as objective as possible. Recently, Steph redesigned her website, which started as blog-style reports back in 2006, to make the trip reports more user friendly and printable, in an ever-growing database of routes from all over the world.
Steph was raised in a family of climbers, and she and her sister Jenny have both emerged as notable women in the climbing world. In this episode, Steph tells us about how she began information sharing in the climbing world, how a major injury almost sidelined her and the years'-long comeback that followed, and so much more. Her passion for the wilderness, adventure, climbing, and data sharing are infectious. We're so grateful to her for sharing her story with us.
Check out Steph's trip reports here
Follow Steph on Instagram @stephabegg_com
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Episode hosted by Broad Beta co-founder Jeannie Wall and Cat Coe
Episode produced and edited by Cat Coe
Conclusion music by Ketsa and Intro music by Holizna Radio. Music sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org.