The Adam Ondra Episode

Climbing Gold

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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For the last decade, no climber has moved our sport closer to the future than Adam Ondra. While he’s known for his visionary sport routes, he’s excelled in every aspect of rock climbing from competition to big walls. Adam sat down for a wide ranging interview to talk about the limits of what’s humanly possible, the Olympics and shiver bivying on El Cap with his father. Watch Climbing Gold on YouTube Thanks to our sponsors The North Face COROS Use code CLIMBINGGOLD to get a free watch carabiner with the purchase of a VERTIX 2s watch when both items are in your cart. Dr. Squatch Use code CLIMBINGGOLD to get 20% any purchase (new customers only) LMNT Use link to get a free LMNT sample pack with any order

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0:00.0	Alex, in the past, you've joked about the best climber in the world syndrome. Is that how you get
0:08.0	introduced at your speaking engagements? Not always, but it is an embarrassingly common moniker. I don't know.
0:16.5	I mean, I think for anybody that doesn't know anything about rock climbing, they're like, he's the guy
0:20.3	from the movie. He must be the best in the world. You're like, oh, that's so embarrassing, because that's just
0:24.6	not the case at all. Yeah. Today, we are going to spend some time chatting with arguably the best
0:32.4	climber in the world, Adam Andra. Yeah, he actually is the best climber in the world. Yeah, is it even, like, could you
0:38.9	even make an argument that he's not? Well, I think in today's world of climbing specialization,
0:43.9	you could, you could maybe argue that he's not because he doesn't climb 8,000 meter peaks,
0:47.7	or he doesn't, you know, do ski descents of big mountains, and he doesn't't he doesn't really do extreme alpinism but but no i mean i think those
0:55.3	arguments would be silly because i think in the world of rock climbing adamander is by far the
1:00.4	best rock climbing the world yeah and i think he's demonstrated it by winning multiple world championships
1:05.1	world cups uh you know basically he's he's done well enough in competitions he's established
1:10.5	the hardest routes outdoors he's established the hardest
1:10.9	routes outdoors he's established some of the hardest boulders in the world
1:13.9	which normally you would consider a totally separate specialization and yet he's
1:17.6	quite good at that as well I mean he's also climbed the hardest big walls in the
1:21.1	world he climbed the dawn wall in a month and it took Tommy seven years come on you know
1:25.0	it's like Adam just shut up and he's's like, yeah, it's good route. Moving on. Go back home to train some more. It's so crazy. I mean, I think it's fair to say
1:31.2	that he's by far the best rock climber in the world. What do you think the biggest takeaway from our
1:36.6	conversation with Adam was? No, I've actually had several takeaways from our conversation with
1:41.8	Adam. One of which was his sort of assertion that if he
1:46.3	can't do a route in a couple weeks then he just needs to go home and train more and come back and
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