Christian Beckwith is the former editor of The American Alpine Journal and Alpinist Magazine, and the creator of the award-winning podcast, Ninety-Pound Rucksack. We talked about the formation of the 10th Mountain Division in WW2, the breaking of Hitler’s Gothic Line, stories of mountain gorilla warfare, gear innovations that changed climbing forever, and much more. You can listen to Christian’s podcast at christianbeckwith.com

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Nuggets:

(00:00:00) – Intro

(00:01:48) – Ninety-Pound Rucksack

(00:10:46) – Birth of the 10th Mountain Division

(00:22:00) – Ghosts in the trees

(00:35:23) – New ropes & belay techniques

(00:49:45) – Boots

(00:54:00) – New vs. old climbing gear

(00:57:49) – The Ninety-Pound Rucksack Challenge

(01:05:35) – Breaking Hitler’s Gothic Line

(01:19:18) – Coal to diamond

(01:25:05) – Writing the story of the 10th

(01:34:32) – Teaching GIs to climb

(01:41:45) – What’s next for this story

(01:47:30) – Wrap up

Carol Simpson returns to the podcast to talk about life after 80 years old, and everything she does to stay healthy and climb hard. We talked about making the move to Salt Lake, discovering Dr. Peter Attia, her health routines, training for a world record in grip strength, balance training, rediscovering art, and much more.

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Nuggets:

(00:00:00) – Intro

(00:01:12) – Leaving Lone Pine

(00:08:25) – The energy of Salt Lake

(00:13:12) – Kalymnos

(00:17:23) – Turning 80

(00:21:46) – Climbing in the gym

(00:25:26) – Women leveling the playing field

(00:31:34) – Dr. Peter Attia

(00:38:44) – Why

(00:44:47) – Routines & training

(00:54:43) – Carol’s deadhang goal

(00:57:25) – Being your own advocate

(01:02:24) – Balance training

(01:11:41) – Yoga

(01:15:45) – Art & breathing

(01:23:14) – Joy

(01:25:45) – Accepted

(01:27:10) – Unrealized dreams

(01:30:06) – Tips from Carol

(01:33:18) – Don’t get married

(01:43:44) – What’s next

(01:45:33) – Wrap up

Domen Škofic is a Slovenian professional climber and a 5x World Cup gold medalist. We talked about his Red Bull Plane Climb project, skydiving, building a climbing gym with his father, retiring from the competition circuit, taking up archery, rediscovering his passion for climbing, sending Move 9b/+ in Flatanger, trying Silence 9c with Sean Raboutou, training lessons, and much more.

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Nuggets:

(00:00:00) – Intro

(00:02:15) – The Plane Climb

(00:10:15) – Skydiving

(00:19:53) – The Plane Climb continued

(00:31:48) – Domen’s father

(00:42:54) – Building his gym

(00:46:11) – Retiring from competitions

(01:01:26) – Archery

(01:05:21) – Rediscovering his passion

(01:11:51) – Move 9b/+

(01:25:45) – Flatanger

(01:28:06) – Trying Silence 9c with Sean Raboutou

(01:33:17) – Training

(01:39:38) – Wrap up

Steve Moss is a high-level boulderer and the co-founder of a brewery and pizzeria in Spokane, WA. We talked about finding climbing at age 24, his breakthrough season climbing three V12s in less than two weeks at age 40, why discomfort helps us grow, his training routine for the past year, building a successful brewery and pizzeria from the ground up, what matters most in climbing, gratitude for life, the connections we make through climbing, and much more.

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Nuggets:

(00:00:00) – Intro

(00:02:21) – Steve’s climbing origin story

(00:07:30) – Life before climbing

(00:09:58) – His wife

(00:14:27) – Leavenworth

(00:18:41) – A resurgence of stoke

(00:23:37) – Passion & challenge

(00:26:36) – Why discomfort is beneficial

(00:34:21) – Building the brewery

(00:52:31) – Brewing beer

(00:56:56) – Steve’s nephew

(01:04:11) – Double V12 day

(01:11:46) – Gratitude

(01:14:37) – Protein & breakthroughs

(01:20:51) – Bodyweight

(01:24:17) – Crimping

(01:27:42) – The hardest part of training

(01:36:39) – Steve’s training

(02:03:30) – 455 V-point day

(02:20:31) – Century bike ride

(02:21:49) – Advice for a young Steve Moss

(02:27:48) – Baseball

(02:29:19) – The people

(02:36:21) – What’s next

Tyler Stableford is a lifelong climber and psychotherapist specializing in trauma resolution and treatment-resistant conditions. We talked about how to find more joy in our climbing, whether high performers are happier, controlling the inputs while releasing attachment to outcomes, what to do with anxiety before we climb, how to break mental plateaus, memory reconsolidation, why self-compassion will help you climb harder, and much more.

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Nuggets:

(00:00:00) – Intro

(00:04:00) – Tyler’s upbringing

(00:09:12) – Discipline, joy, & wellness

(00:14:38) – Appreciation

(00:21:10) – What is your WHY?

(00:28:20) – Are high performers happier?

(00:31:08) – Will you lose your edge?

(00:42:32) – Identity

(00:49:07) – Constraints to joy

(00:53:39) – Controlling the inputs

(00:57:10) – Listening to our intuition

(01:07:49) – What CBT is missing

(01:11:22) – Memory Reconsolidation

(01:21:44) – Self-compassion

(01:29:49) – How to mentally break plateaus

(01:36:45) – Attachment to progress

(01:39:45) – Common stories we tell ourselves

(01:42:11) – Two phrases

(01:46:07) – What to do with anxiety

(01:49:47) – Our egos

(01:53:15) – Wrap up

Dr. Jared Vagy returns to the podcast and is joined by three physical therapy students and graduates, Sarah Kremer, Dawson Freeze, and Michael Larson. We talked about three recent articles covering the benefits of seasonality for maximizing climbing performance, rehabbing and preventing common knee injuries while heel hooking, and off-the-wall strength training for climbers. See the show notes for the full articles here.

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Nuggets:

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(00:04:16) – Overview

(00:07:52) – Sarah’s topic (the case for taking a break)

(00:10:24) – What Sarah’s research process looked like

(00:11:22) – Surprises in Sarah’s research process

(00:12:35) – Recommendations on when to take time off

(00:15:48) – How to sustain stoke

(00:18:04) – How climbing ability solidifies over time

(00:20:56) – If Sarah did a follow-up study

(00:28:38) – Dawson’s topic (heel hooking and knee injuries)

(00:33:22) – Common heel hook injuries

(00:35:20) – Go to hip mobility exercises

(00:39:00) – Heel hooking warm-ups

(00:41:01) – Surprises in Dawson's research

(00:43:27) – If Dawson did a follow-up study

(00:49:28) – Michael's topic (off the wall strength training)

(00:52:10) – How often should climbers weight train

(00:55:34) – At what point are you strong enough

(01:02:59) – Comparing athletes

(01:09:47) – Stability-focused exercises

(01:19:18) – Value in taking time off

(01:21:19) – Jared's final thoughts

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Adrian Ballinger is a renowned alpinist and mountain guide, and has summited Mt. Everest and K2 without supplemental oxygen. We talked about his childhood, misconceptions about what he does, what climbing Everest is actually like, skiing above 8,000 meters, risking his life to send K2, sending Fall of Man 5.13b, how mountaineering compares to projecting 5.13, meeting his wife Emily Harrington, how performance changes with age, lessons everyone should know, and much more. You can learn more about Adrian at adrianballinger.com

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Nuggets:

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(00:03:06) – Growing up

(00:06:08) – Connecting with adventure as a kid

(00:16:08) – Misconceptions about what Adrian does

(00:22:04) – Tech breakthroughs in mountaineering

(00:26:04) – Client pressure around summits

(00:30:04) – Alpenglow Expeditions

(00:33:09) – Regulations on Everest

(00:35:08) – What climbing Everest is really like

(00:41:04) – Climbing Everest without oxygen

(00:49:57) – Preparing for Everest without oxygen

(00:58:56) – Skiing accolades

(01:01:59) – Skiing above 8,000 meters

(01:05:00) – Skiing down vs. rappelling massive peaks

(01:08:58) – Fall of Man

(01:11:01) – Physically hardest climb

(01:12:56) – Mental hardest climb

(01:14:57) – Most dangerous climb

(01:18:01) – Why Adrian took a risk on K2

(01:21:01) – Meeting Emily

(01:32:45) – What’s left for Adrian in alpinism

(01:34:43) – Switching to hard sport climbing

(01:46:43) – Bouldering in Rocklands

(01:54:42) – Performance changes with age

(01:59:42) – Athletes Adrian looks up to

(02:02:40) – Lessons everyone should know

(02:05:40) – Adrian’s podcast