Our Best Is Always Changing

Climbing Gold

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In April of 2022, Anna Pfaff set out to tick an Alaska classic – the Harvard Route on Mount Huntington. With her partner Priti Wright, Anna romped up the 3,000 foot face of ice, rock and snow, but the climb would prove to be a life changing experience. Frostbite would force doctors to amputate most of her toes. As a professional athlete, Anna would have to come to terms with her new best. Thanks to our sponsors The North Face Momentous Athletic Greens

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0:00.0	So, Alex, I've got a question for you.
0:08.0	Do you like the cold?
0:09.8	Do you like the feeling of being out in deep cold?
0:14.4	I hate the cold.
0:16.5	It's so funny, though, because you say that, but then, like, you kind of, you dip your toe in it.
0:21.3	Actually, yeah, I would say I don't like the cold.
0:23.9	Yeah, I don't like the cold, but I would say I think I'm fine in the cold.
0:27.6	I don't think I'm any worse than anybody else.
0:29.9	You know, I always kind of joke that I'm from suburban California, and, you know, it's like I grew up riding my bike around and then like the suburbs. It's like I'm just not a cold person.
0:39.7	But realistic, I think I do as well in the cold as anybody else really.
0:43.5	I remember having one experience in my life.
0:46.5	I spent six weeks in the UK climbing on the grit in October and November.
0:50.9	And it was very cold and very wet.
0:53.1	And we were trying to rock climb and basically we were just constantly freezing,
0:57.9	which, you know, it's fine.
0:58.9	It's kind of the nature of climbing there.
0:59.9	You want the conditions.
1:00.8	Like, it was all part of the plan.
1:02.2	But anyway, I came back to California for December.
1:05.9	And I remember for the first time in my life, I was like, I'm the guy that's tough in the cold because I was climbing at jailhouse and everybody else at the sport crack was like all bundled up.
1:14.0	And I would just be in my shorts hanging out, being like, it's so nice here.
1:16.5	It's like so warm in California.
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