Maureen Beck Explained

Maureen Beck is an American mountaineer, and a specialist in adaptive climbing. Born without a lower left arm, she has won six national titles, and won a gold medal at the 2014 Spanish Paraclimbing World Championships.^[1]

Beck is from Ellsworth, Maine and a graduate of the University of Vermont.^[2] She was inspired to take up climbing at the age of 12 after a counsellor said she did not have to do it on a camp course. Because there was no support for one-handed climbing, she devised a way of doing it herself. She accompanied Jim Ewing in a climb of the Lotus Flower Tower in the Cirque of the Unclimbables.^[3]

The 2018 documentary "Stumped" centered on Beck and her climbing career.^[4]

Honors and awards

In 2019 Beck was named National Geographic Adventurer of the Year.^[5] ^[6] In May of 2022, Beck placed second at the IFSC Paraclimbing World Cup.^[7]

External links

Notes and References

Meet Maureen Beck. https://web.archive.org/web/20210318083223/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/maureen-beck-rock-climber. dead. March 18, 2021. National Geographic. February 26, 2019. December 12, 2022.
News: Fleming . Deirdre . 2021-12-19 . Greatest gifts? . https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114510308/greatest-gifts/,https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114510358/ . Portland Press Herald . 2022-12-12.
Maureen Beck Shares Her Story at Overture. Broadway World. March 22, 2022. December 12, 2022.
News: Mcconnaha . Michelle . 2018-01-14 . Docs about rocks - climbing them, that is . A1 . Ravalli Republic . 2022-12-12.
News: Jeniewicz . Debbie . 2020-02-07 . Adventure Summit will have you climbing the walls . G2 . Dayton Daily News . 2022-12-12.
Web site: 2019-02-26 . Meet Maureen Beck, National Geographic 2019 Adventurer of the Year . https://web.archive.org/web/20210318083223/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/maureen-beck-rock-climber . dead . March 18, 2021 . 2023-02-22 . Adventure . en.
Web site: Maureen BECK . 2023-02-22 . www.ifsc-climbing.org.