For the Love of Climbing
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This is not a climbing podcast. Well, sorta. This is a podcast about choosing vulnerability and talking about our pain—and how we are all really just shining examples of this messy human existence.

31: Sober as F***

There’s a paradoxical effect of drinking—the depressant qualities of booze and how it makes us feel the next day. I mean, physically. Some people can ...
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30: The Prince

Phillip Schaal, “The Prince P”, died in 2016 after a severe reaction to a suspicious drug overdose, as told by his mother Eloise. At 35 years old, Phi...
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29: Cat Like a Cat

All of Cat’s things (you know, his *stuff*—his beliefs and interests and passions) can account for his identity—but only one part. We’re increasingly ...
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29: Cat Like a Cat

All of Cat’s things (you know, his *stuff*—his beliefs and interests and passions) can account for his identity—but only one part. We’re increasingly ...
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28: Brittany

In 2017, a forty-foot fall broke Brittany’s L1 vertebrae, sending a piece of bone into her spinal cord. She describes it as one of those surreal dream...
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27: A Splash in the Pan

On April 16th, 2019, elite climbers Jess Roskelley, David Lama, and Hansjörg Auer lost their lives in an avalanche climbing Howse Peak in Alberta’s B...
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26: I’m a Liver, Not a Fighter

Cedar, who was named after a tree, has achieved a lot in her almost-decade of being alive—she has a podcast, she’s sort of a Do-It-Yourself queen, an ...
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Mini-Episode 9: I Did Not Know

How do you measure something that definitively changes your life forever—whether it be for better or worse? Like, what kind of metrics are we supposed...
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25: A Knot Like Infinity

Last September, North Bennett sent me a personal essay and told me that he thought it wasn’t send-y enough for most sports publications, but also a li...
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24: The Process

Just shy of twenty 5.12 free solos, Austin Howell had climbed nineteen unique routes without a rope—one of them without shoes and butt ass naked. In 2...
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