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The Calling: Barry Blanchard
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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Mar 1, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In 1969, at the age of nine, Barry Blanchard sat on a Greyhound bus as a young woman read to him from the pages of the mountaineering classic, The White Spider. Five decades later, alpinist and mountain guide Barry Blanchard recalls how the call of the mountains transformed his life.
Released:
Mar 1, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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