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

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 ClimbingCuba ClimbingArmando Fund on Access FundFreyja FoundationThe Nugget’s InstagramRemains of Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine believed to have been found on EverestRokifolk.comFollow Jessica Roki Kilroy on InstagramJessica Roki Kilroy BandcampJessica Roki Kilroy on Spotify

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