Ep. 42 - The Power of Long-Term Projects
Phil Wortmann doesn’t look at outrageous projects like most people. Rather, it’s a puzzle to be solved and the pieces might just require a whole new set of skills and close to a decade to put it all together.
Phil Wortmann doesn’t look at outrageous projects like most people. Rather, it’s a puzzle to be solved and the pieces might just require a whole new set of skills and close to a decade to put it all together.
If JC Dubeau is known it’s somewhat as a dark horse. Seriously, who is this guy?
Enni Bertling has seen it all when it comes to climbing in Finland.
Pedro Guerra-Zúñiga has a fighting spirit — a spirit that especially likes to laugh. After being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Pedro decided he would respond on his terms: with humor and a goal of making Team Canada.
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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.
Does drytooling have a grading problem? Katie McKinstry Stylos is one of top drytoolers in the world, specializing in big roofs. After her recent trip to project Parallel World (D15+/D16?) she has some questions.
In Matthias Scherer’s words, Norway provides the true character of ice climbing. That is to say, you can always find adventure, from single pitch up to vertical kilometer ice flows.
Jordan Revis started ice climbing 4 years ago. In that time, he’s helped to cultivate spaces to support more diversity in the Northeast.
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Who do you want to be? Marcus Garcia is turning 50 this year and he’s lived a lot of lives in that time. That question has been buzzing.
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What goes into product innovation in climbing? Bill Belcourt shares insights from over 30 years in the industry.
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Gordon McArthur has been a staple on the World Cup circuit across 15 seasons. We talk about returning to the sport, the story of Storm Giant (the first proposed D16 in the world), and what role ego plays in it all.
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Doug Heinrich has just about done it all and seen it all in ice climbing as both a climber and product designer.