Roger Strong made his catch king crab fishing so he could ski and climb the rest of the year — it was a path forged by sea and steel and off-season adventure. But the metallurgy of life also requires tempering, annealing, and healing too.
🧊 About the episode
Roger Strong made his catch king crab fishing so he could ski and climb the rest of the year. His life was forged by sea and steel, commercial fishing hardening him for both alpinism and captainship.
As he says, it was some of the best and worst times.
But to continue the metaphor, the metallurgy of life also requires tempering, annealing, and healing too.
In this episode, we chat about:
- 🧊 Life and times of commercial crab fishing
- 🧊 Establishing mixed lines in Washington, including the first M8, M9, and M11
- 🧊 Why having a child was the best thing that ever happened to him
- 🧊 Learning to smell the moss
"Being part of that environment is as important, if not more important than the accomplishment — humans just put too much value on the summit, too much value on numbers.
I don't know what the difference between 15 a, b, c, and d is, but that's for those people that can do that. And so is their ascent more important than my soloing 5.6, 5.7, 5.8? Maybe it is to them, but, it's the movement, it's the touching the stone, it's the swinging of the ice tool, looking for the perfect swing, looking for the perfect amount of footwork, and it's just this, I'm just always looking for."
🎁 Giveaway
Roger works for Black Diamond, America’s quintessential climbing company. For this episode, they are generously giving away:
- 🐉 A set of Hydras!
Only members of the podcast will be able to enter, luckily, you can become a member for FREE, which gives you access to special giveaways like this (and other goodies).
👉 To enter:
In this week's newsletter, we share a question which Roger answers in this week's episode.
Once you have the answer:
1. Follow @blackdiamond and @ice_ice_beta on Instagram
2. DM the answer to the question to @ice_ice_beta
3. Comment on Roger's episode post on our Instagram: “#manyheadedbeast” once you’ve sent in your answer
📣 Winners will be randomly selected from submissions that meet all the rules on Monday, February 10
🧊 Resources and links
You can follow Roger on Instagram, @roger_strong.
If you’d like to learn more about Roger’s accident, this is the video Fitz Cahall produced about his recovery.
🧊 Credits
📸: Cover photo courtesy of Roger.
Intro music by Hannah Noelle Enomoto (thanks, sis!). This episode was edited by Andrew Salomone of salomonesound.com.
🧊 Sponsors:
A huge thanks to Aniiu Gloves and Furnace Industries for supporting this show!
Aniiu Gloves: What do you get when you combine 30 years of ice climbing and product design chops? Well, if you’re into gloves you get Aniiu — a boutique climbing brand on a mission to produce the best ice climbing and drytooling gloves around. Doug, Jun, and the rest of the team spare no expense in the pursuit of durable, dextrous and waterproof. Best yet, they are made from recycled textiles — which saves waste from the landfill — and they are robustly built so they won’t end up there anytime soon. To learn more about your friend in the cold, head to aniiu.com. That is aniiu.com.
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