RunOut 136: Brady Robinson on Climbing, Advocacy, and the legacy of Armando Menocal

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Armando Menocal was a civil rights lawyer and climber who helped found the Access Fund. It’s safe to say that without Armando’s silent but hugely significant contributions, climbing would look very different today. Sadly, Armando recently died at the age of 83 from cancer. Here today to help memorialize Armando is Armando’s friend and colleague Brady Robinson. Brady is the former Executive Director of the Access Fund. He is a veteran of numerous expeditions, with first ascents in Pakistan, Patagonia, and Peru. Today he works as the director of philanthropy at the Freja Foundation and is working on conservation projects in South America.

But first, your hosts listen to another climbing podcast, get redpilled, freak out, and launch into a conspiracy of our own about Jimmy Chin and Sandy Irvine. Something’s afoot on Everest …

For today’s final bit, climber / musician Jessica Roki Kilroy is back with Right Here Remix. Roki is a climber and musician from Montana, whose experimental, brooding, emotional folk music incorporates the sounds of the natural world, including those that she captured while on El Cap.

Show Notes

“Remembering Armando Menocal” on Climbing
Cuba Climbing
Armando Fund on Access Fund
Freyja Foundation
The Nugget’s Instagram
Remains of Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine believed to have been found on Everest
Rokifolk.com
Follow Jessica Roki Kilroy on Instagram
Jessica Roki Kilroy Bandcamp
Jessica Roki Kilroy on Spotify

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2 responses to “RunOut 136: Brady Robinson on Climbing, Advocacy, and the legacy of Armando Menocal”

  1. Sammi Avatar
    Sammi

    OK though, the name on the sock thing does not seem weird at all to me. One that was way more common back then-two the man himself says his mom showed his name on his underwear. In case he died, this man was a mountaineer.

    1. Chris Kalous Avatar
      Chris Kalous

      Logical, but show me (Kalous) another documented example in mountaineering, or life, where a grown ass man sewed his name on his socks. Also, some of his socks must have survived the expedition. Where are these monogrammed socks to compare? Carbon dated?

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