Episodes 130 and 131: Adapting with Maureen Beck

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Written By Kris Hampton

Mo Beck is a professional climber, 2019 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, multiple time World Champion, stand up comedian (not really but she should be) and all around BADASS. 

In the first of these two episodes we sit down in a busy Outdoor Retailer hallway to discuss a little of her background, her work with the US Adaptive Athletes, and her big looming trip to the Lotus Flower Tower in Canada's Cirque of the Unclimbables with fellow adaptive climber Jim Ewing. Not to mention, how's she simultaneously trying to train for it AND the World Championships immediately after her trip. 

In the second, we catch up post-trip at a campfire in the Red River Gorge to discuss how it went, hear the epic stories and find out what the future holds.

 
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