PROFILEBeth Rodden
Beth is one of America’s top female all around climbers. She started as a competition and indoor climber, but quickly fell in love with the outdoors. She is the only American woman to have climbed 5.14b and four 5.14’s. With her husband, Tommy, she has free climbed Lurking Fear on El Capitan and the most famous big wall climb in the world, the Nose. Beth also is pushing the standards for women’s trad climbing, having redpointed 5.13+ trad routes. She has been on expeditions to Madagascar, Kyrgyzstan, and Canada. Beth has written feature length articles for Climbing Magazine and Alpinist and has contributed to Rock and Ice Magazine. She is on the design board with Marmot. Her other sponsors include La Sportiva, Petzl, Metolius, and PowerBar.
Happily married for 3 and a half years, Only American to climb 5.14b (The Optimist—First Ascent), First woman to free climb 2 routes on El Capitan, Yosemite (Lurking Fear FFA, The Nose), Second Ascent of Country Boy 5.13d (trad climb), Climbed 4 5.14’s, almost built a house with Tommy—hopefully finished soon:)
She’s scared of spiders and falling. She loves television, especially HGTV. She likes to bake, when she has time, and feels that the use of margarine is a crime in baked goods. Always orders desert.