Summary

In our 2 hour long conversation, we sit down with AMGA-certified guide Lindsey Hamm or so aptly named “The Hamminator”. Hamm is an AMGA-certified single-pitch instructor and a certified rock guide. She has also completed her AMGA Ice Instructor Course….Advanced Alpine Guide courses and currently… is on track to becoming the 18th female ever to receive an IFMGA pin. She has guided and climbed all around the Western US and has spent time in India and China, and at the time of this episode, launching is in the middle of a climbing trip in Pakistan. Her quick and intuitive decision-making combined with genuine laughter, and ability to be unapologetically herself is a contagious force that undoubtedly has helped establish herself as a well-respected professional in the climbing community and an inspiration to anyone who wishes to follow in her footsteps.

We talk about how she found climbing, her stories of three separate ground falls that left her…uninjured, we chat about the art of soloing, and belaying, and…since she is officially the first female on the podcast, we dive into her female perspective of the climbing community, the details of her life as a female guide, and how misogyny can plague the sport, and finally, we hear about what she is currently up to in the steep rocky terrain of Pakistan.

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Resources:

Learn more about Lindsey Hamm here:

Field Journal | Written by Maggie Shafer // Photography by Luke Hall
https://www.commonclimber.com/profile-lindsey-hamm.html

Common Climber Profile | Written by  Enock Glidden
| https://www.sidetracked.com/fieldjournal/lindsey-hamm-hyping-up-the-climbing-world/

Lindsey Hamm's IG: @hamminator2017

Female Empowering Climbing Groups:

Iris | https://irisalpine.com/

She Moves Mountains | https://shemovesmountains.org/

Flash Foxy | https://www.flashfoxy.com/

She Jumps | https://www.shejumps.org/

Texas Lady Crushers | https://www.texasladycrushers.com/

Steph Davis | https://stephdavis.co/