Ninety-Pound Rucksack
- History
- Society & Culture · Documentary
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About
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...
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Recent episodes
- Low-Mountain Warfare: Episode 15
- Camp Hale, Part 4: Episode 14
- Camp Hale, Part 3: Episode 13
- Camp Hale, Part 2: Episode 12
- Camp Hale, Part 1: Episode 11
- The Old And The New: Episode 10
- Gear Heads, Part 2: Episode 09
- Gear Heads, Part 1: Episode 08
- Bonus Episode: The 10th, Then and Now
- Mountain Intelligence: Episode 07