Climbing El Capitan at 8-Years-Old with Joe & Sam Evermore

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🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Joe and Ann Evermore live in Colorado and they take wild parenting to a whole new level. Their kids are five, eight and 10, and each of them is a skilled hiker and rock climber. In 2022, their oldest son Sam became the youngest person to climb El Capitan via rope ascent.

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0:00.0	So if we want our kids to have grit, we want our kids to have strength and
0:07.4	inner confidence, we have to be willing to kind of get them into these
0:11.1	environments to do it.
0:16.8	And I think the same thing can happen on a Ninja Warrior course,
0:19.7	I think the same thing can happen
0:21.2	going to a stream or camping with a kid, you don't have to big wall climb
0:24.7	to do it.
0:25.7	It's just the way we do it.
0:27.7	Joe Evermore thinks a lot about how to guide the next generation of adventurers.
0:36.0	He's an advanced climber, a business coach, and most importantly he's a dad to three boys
0:40.9	with another baby on the way.
0:43.0	Joe and his wife Anne live in Colorado,
0:45.0	and they take wild parenting to a whole new level.
0:48.0	Their kids are five, eight, and ten,
0:51.0	and each of them is a skilled hiker and rock climber. In fact, you might have heard of his
0:55.3	oldest son Sam Adventure. Yes, that's actually his middle name. In 2022, Sam became the youngest person to climb El Capitan in Yosemite when he was just eight years old.
1:07.0	Climbing is an incredibly important part of the evermore family's life.
1:11.0	By doing wild things outside together, Joan and his wife Anne are teaching their kids to be loving courageous adventurers.
1:18.0	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living, an REI co-op studios production brought to you by Capital One.
1:27.0	Joe Evermore, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living. We're really excited to have you on the show.
1:36.6	Yeah, heck yeah.
1:37.8	Okay, so what is your background and the outdoors? Because it's one thing to be outdoorsy and then it's like a
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