@cassidyrandall.bsky.social stopped by Pitch Club HQ to talk about her @atavist.com pitch for her story "Alone at the Edge of the World," a story was anthologized in Year's Best Sports Writing 2023. welcometopitchclub.substack.com/p/how-to-wra...

Love that my fave piece I've written all year is for our local outlet @thepulp.org. It's about how Missoula landed on the national music map. But it's about so much more than that - including how to preserve the culture and people that give a place its soul. thepulp.org/empire-state...

My latest for @theguardian.com: locals rallied in Glacier as politicians "championing" public land showcased the park - while doing nothing about the Trump administration’s slashing of jobs & funding that have thrown national parks into crisis. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The first all women's ascent of Denali, 55 years, was an absolutely fantastic story and a wild survival story to boot. But why had it gone mostly untold, until now? My latest, for REI. www.rei.com/blog/climb/f...

When @be-jammin-polley.bsky.social and I, two adventurers, were planning our honeymoon, it made sense that it should be the most epic adventure we’d undertaken to date. No feather beds and cocktails on beaches for us, we thought. And then we almost died. cassidyr.substack.com/p/our-wilder...

Latest on the column: Writer and REI podcaster Shelby Stanger lives a dream life. But she's honest about the fact that she worked for it, invested in herself, and was entirely motivated to pursue her passion. cassidyr.substack.com/p/the-secret...

Thank you to @alexhonnold.bsky.social for the most fun interview I've gotten to do yet on THIRTY BELOW. Clearly it was winter when we recorded this...

Latest on my Substack: what our reactive, handful rescue dog taught me about expectation, perfectionism, and how to enter into relationship with other beings. And remembering that none of us mean to mess up (usually). We're all just doing our best. cassidyr.substack.com/p/how-to-ope...

Thanks to @brendanomeara.bsky.social for the chat on The Creative Nonfiction podcast on my latest @atavist.com story. Talking with other writers about writing is always so validating and vindicating and all the other feels solitary writers often need so badly. brendanomeara.com/the-cassidy-...

If you like a good podcast, well, you're in luck. It's a double-feature Friday and @cassidyrandall.bsky.social is back to talk about her @atavist.com story "The Longest Journey."

Need something inspirational in your apocalyptic politics feed? My latest for @rollingstone.com. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Lena Rowat skied 1,600 grueling miles across the Coast Range to quiet her demons. But she didn’t begin to silence them until tragedy struck. Atavist no. 163, by @cassidyrandall.bsky.social, is here. magazine.atavist.com/the-longest-...

Here's a real actual booklist of real actual books about historical adventures in the great outdoors - mine included! 💙📚 I'll add @cassidyrandall.bsky.social's THIRTY BELOW and Jayne Zanglein's THE GIRL EXPLORERS. @bookriot.bsky.social bookriot.com/historical-s...

My latest for @atavist.com: It the greatest ski mountaineering expedition ever. And it was a journey of obsession, depression, love, loss, survival—and the cost of following a drive to go further and higher than anyone had before. magazine.atavist.com/the-longest-...

We live in an era of curated productivity - a time of drinking from a constant fire hose of production. How do we buck such unsustainable standards? Latest on the Substack. cassidyr.substack.com/p/the-pressu...

"Once these lands are gone, they're gone forever." That means no more hiking, biking, camping, horseback riding, flyfishing, rafting, or wildlife watching. Latest on my Forbes column. www.forbes.com/sites/cassid...

Jon Bentzel and Micah Nelson were hiking in Glacier National Park when a grizzly bear attacked Bentzel while protecting her cubs. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Some are willing to muzzle science to seek profit By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST The current administration is attacking institutions of knowledge, such …

In case you just walked in: the mayor of Newark was arrested during a protest at an ICE detention center in his capacity as mayor while requesting access to the facility, which, the city says, failed to obtain required permits or certificate of occupancy. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/n...

I could not be more honored that Thirty Below has been selected as the Town Read at Mountainfilm this year! If you’re in Telluride, come join me at Wilkinson Public Library for some storytelling. So, so excited for this event.

Coming for you Friday night, Whitefish! Thanks to @thepulp.org for publishing an excerpt of THIRTY BELOW ahead of the Whitefish reading. Montana love is the best kind of love. thepulp.org/thirty-below...

Call your Representatives now. Once our public lands are gone, they’re gone for good. www.npr.org/2025/05/07/g...

I always forget how beautiful B.C. is. Maybe on purpose, so I’m not sad I don’t live here anymore.

The road north. Spring in the Rockies, she’s hard to beat.

How to brighten up a gray day: Exhibit A.

In a time of increasingly permissible misogyny and oppression, when people across the country feel that progress in women’s equality has backslid (I do, anyway), we need examples of real & complex heroines. cassidyr.substack.com/p/i-need-a-h...

Want some good news? (Yeah, you do.) It might feel like progress in women’s equality has been stymied lately, but a look back a historic firsts and progress since shows this long road WILL reach the destination. My latest for TIME. time.com/7267898/all-...

Whoa. This is a wild, adrenaline-pumping true story. Please don't ever let me be impaled in the backcountry. www.mensjournal.com/travel/deadl... @be-jammin-polley.bsky.social

Regardless of Mr. Trump’s efforts to force upon it the name of a president who had never even visited Alaska, the mountain has always been, and will always be, Denali. My latest for @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/o...

"We need stories of female mettle, bravery, curiosity, and impact—on how we see the world, what we know of it, and what we are capable of in it." Now more than ever, as this administration stifles historic feats of women & minorities. @climbingmagazine.bsky.social www.climbing.com/news/first-a...

Check and balances kicking in. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

What would be the thing that makes you take to the streets? Make you do more than post on social media? What would you march for, rally for, place your body in front of the charge for? More on how to stand up for your beliefs, and our democracy, in my latest. cassidyr.substack.com/p/what-would...

“The president is elected to serve the whole country. These vengeful actions toward science, veterans and wildlife are purely out of greed.” Great new one from @be-jammin-polley.bsky.social www.explorebigsky.com/dispatches-f...

When @alexhonnold.bsky.social reviews your book and likes it, it suddenly feels like a legit climbing tale - especially given he wrote his book, Alone on the Wall, with one of the great mountaineering writers of our time in David Roberts. So, what I'm saying is, Alex would know. Thank you for this!

Always love a great adventure book! From March 4 we see a book from @cassidyrandall.bsky.social : Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali 🧪 amzn.to/4gBDJmK

Montana turning out in FORCE. We don’t like it when people threaten our public lands and the livelihoods of people who work on and steward them. This administration wants a fight? They’ve got one.

Impeccable International Women’s Day mail, thank you @cassidyrandall.bsky.social & Abrams team!

Women's names in mountaineering, that pursuit that mainstream culture has long romanticized and obsessed over, aren't well known. Ever wonder why that is? Or who some of those trailblazing women were? Read some of their stories in my latest for @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

NEW PODCAST: The guest is author and adventure writer @cassidyrandall.bsky.social, whose latest book is "Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All Women’s Ascent of Denali." IMO: One of the best working writers today. link.chtbl.com/SportsMediaP...

Always love talking to @richarddeitsch.bsky.social. Thank you for the conversation, and spreading the word about THIRTY BELOW!

Love seeing @mensjournalmag.bsky.social give space to THIRTY BELOW. Its not just a story about women. It's a damn good adventure story. Period. www.mensjournal.com/travel/grace...

Ha, at least I can provide some good news today. Thank you @evaholland.bsky.social!

Go grab this riveting and gripping book today. It won’t let you down.

THIRTY BELOW hits bookstore shelves today! Female figures in mainstream adventure and exploration literature in the vein of Endurance, The Wager, and Into Thin Air are shockingly slim. These are some of the women history unjustly forgot. And, gender aside—this is just a damn good adventure story.

Thanks for the shoutout, @brendanomeara.bsky.social! And the honest look at advances, what a unicorn.

Nice ink. Here’s what it looks like in today’s @washingtonpost.com

"In a time of ever-worsening environmental news, there’s a bright spot emerging from these discoveries: Animals may be capable of more than we yet understand." Great one in @highcountrynews.bsky.social. www.hcn.org/articles/lif...

Thank you for the nod, @washingtonpost.com! Thrilled to see Thirty Below in such good company. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

"A US gov't entirely uninterested in global cooperation would still find it cost-effective to reduce American's carbon emissions by more than 80%" on.ft.com/4kodymv