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Ninety-Pound Rucksack

Christian Beckwith
Next episode on Thursday, January 15.
Ninety-Pound Rucksack is a podcast about the US Army's legendary 10th Mountain Division, a gritty unit of World War II climbers and skiers who trained for more than two years in the Colorado Rockies (often wearing ninety-pound "rucksacks," or backpacks) to fight the Axis powers in extreme cold and mountainous terrain. Not only did the Division's insertion into the war help end Germany's occupation of Italy; post-war, its veterans founded and developed ski areas across America, started companies like NOLS and Nike and launched the fields of avalanche science and wilderness rescue. Equal parts real-time research, intimate conversation and revelatory journalism, Ninety-Pound Rucksack explores not only the stories that made the unit famous, but also the transformative power of the mountains to forge a collective identity among the mountain troops—and to ignite a passion for the outdoors that reshaped American society in the process.
18 episodes  •  0 archived  •  
S1 E14·
November 3
November 3
1h 32m
S1 E13·
July 25
July 25
1h 43m
S1 E12·
January 27
January 27
1h 12m
S1 E11·
Sep 16, 2024
Sep 16, 2024
1h 32m
S1 E10·
Jul 23, 2024
Jul 23, 2024
53 mins
S1 E9·
Mar 25, 2024
Mar 25, 2024
2h 21m
S1 E8·
Jan 12, 2024
Jan 12, 2024
1h 13m
S1 E8·
Jan 11, 2024
Jan 11, 2024
38 mins

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