“Eight Days on a Portaledge, Waiting to Live or Die” — Kitty Calhoun stuck on a Himalayan storm

“We were hanging from a homemade portaledge at 21,000 feet when the storm hit. Eight days of avalanches pounding the wall — one even snapped a corner of the ledge, and we tied it back together with webbing.”

In this clip from the Ageless Athlete Podcast, climber Kitty Calhoun shares what it felt like to be suspended on a vertical face, rationing food, praying the anchors would hold, and learning what endurance really means.

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