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Climbing Gold

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Climbing Gold

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8849 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Does climbing have inherent value? We kick off season 4 of Climbing Gold by talking about finding meaning in our lives, whether through climbing or other pursuits. Nik Berry, an ER nurse and rock climber, reflects on his pursuit of climbing hard routes and how that shifted and guided him during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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0:00.0

Alex, here we are.

0:06.9

Season four, climbing gold.

0:08.7

I've got some questions for you.

0:11.6

15 years from now when little baby June is, you know, a teenager, and ask you,

0:17.0

Dad, what was the pandemic like?

0:19.7

What will be, you know, what would be the enduring memory you would share with her?

0:25.5

I think I remember the empty streets in Vegas and the, we drove down to the strip once.

0:31.3

We had takeout food and we just drove the strip. It was completely empty. And there were all these

0:36.1

flashing signs. I think it was Easter time maybe. It was randomly raining, which made it feel even more apocalyptic in the

0:40.8

desert. But there are all these flashing signs saying, you know, wash your hands and you'll be

0:45.2

safe, but there's nobody on the streets, and it all felt like the zombie apocalypse had come and gone.

0:49.9

You know, we seriously expected a zombie to run out from any doorfront it was pretty creepy it was funny

0:55.3

i remember also being on the phone like really early in it being on the phone with you and you're

0:59.4

like in the store it was either toilet paper or eggs but you're like standing in front of the eggs

1:04.9

and it's like they're all gone and then someone recognized you or something like that and you're

1:09.5

like hang on this guy's giving me eggs or toilet paper.

1:12.0

It was like one of the other.

1:12.9

Do you have remember that?

1:13.8

I faintly remember that.

1:15.6

Yes, I think it might have been toilet paper.

1:17.4

Maybe somebody gave me a roll of toilet paper.

1:20.6

Yeah.

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