Stumped, a documentary about Beck’s ascent of , a climb rated as 5.12 (the standard at which good climbers become great), Beck attempts to look serious as she explains why she has only one hand, as her left arm ends at her forearm. “Someone took the guard off the wood chipper,” she says, nodding solemnly.
But she can’t maintain the ruse. She grins as she launches into a series of explanations, each more absurd than the last—about meeting an alligator at a petting zoo, or waving goodbye to a helicopter pilot.The truth is, she was born that way.
When she was a young girl, slights real and imagined drove her. She traces her beginning in rock climbing to a guide at a camp suggesting she sit out that activity.
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