Friday, March 21, 2025
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Become a Patron!“I could suddenly see — and this is how I know when I’m supposed to start writing — is that words start putting themselves together in my head, and I just have to get them out, right? Which doesn’t happen all the time, but it did for this,” says Cassidy Randall, author of the masterpiece new book Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali (Abrams Books).
Cassidy has been on the podcast before (and she be on a third time in about two months since she has ANOTHER Atavist story coming out).
Cassidy (@_cassidyrandall) is an adventure and outdoors writer, primarily, and focuses much of her reportorial eye on women, who for so long were discounted as “weaker” in every sense of the word. And it’s Cassidy’s writing of Thirty Below that illustrated just how ignorant and misogynistic the establishment was (and, likely, still is to a degree).
In this episode we talk about:
- The beginning and ending
- Sticky notes
- The post-book funk
- Interviewing
- And so much more
Her work has appeared in The Atavist Magazine, where her story was selected for The Year’s Best Sports Writing in 2023. More stories appear in National Geographic, the New York Times, the Guardian, and Outside Magazine, just to name a few. She’s also the co-author/ghost writer for Oksana Masters’s The Hard Parts.
Probably a topic for the next time we speak, but Cassidy is a working writing. Her work is so varied, filled with the work we tout (like books and Atavist stories) and other more quiet, contract work for brands (work that really tends to pay the bills). Seriously, check out her website and you’ll see what it takes.
Please enjoy this episode, and don’t be shy. HMU on Instagram, Bluesky, or send an email.
