The Devil's Climb

Climbing Gold

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Last summer, Alex and Tommy Caldwell rode bikes from Estes Park, Colorado to SE Alaska where they boarded a sailboat which dropped them beneath the fabled Devil’s Thumb. Their adventure is now a film on Disney+, but a lot of the experience got left on the cutting room floor. We sat down with Tommy and their photographer/wingman, Taylor Shaffer, to dive deeper into the journey. The Devil's Climb trailer Thanks to our sponsors The North Face Altitude Climbing Learn the three key elements needed to make progress again from Dave Macleod. Sign-up for the course at altitudeclimbing.com/climbinggold. 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. LMNT Use link to get a free LMNT sample pack with any order Watch Climbing Gold on YouTube

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0:00.0	Alex, how do you feel about spandex?
0:03.0	I don't love it.
0:06.0	I never really did the whole spandex, the single-it, any of the things.
0:11.0	I did bike shorts because you need the padding, but I don't really love spandex.
0:16.0	Yeah. It's a pretty big week for you.
0:18.0	The Devils Climb, you and Tommy Caldwell's new film
0:21.0	with National Geographic and Disney Plus dropped last week.
0:25.0	It's about your incredible bike ride from Tommy's house
0:27.6	in Estes Park to climb the fable devil's thumb
0:30.8	on the Stikine ice cap in Alaska.
0:33.5	I mean, like, it kind of has it all.
0:36.1	It's funny, it's good, it has incredible cinemat has it all. It's funny. It's good.
0:37.6	It has incredible cinematography from Renan Oss Turk.
0:42.6	Yeah.
0:43.1	How psyched are you?
0:45.0	I think it's a good film, and I'm psyched for friends to see it, and I'm psyched for
0:48.5	family to see it.
0:49.7	I'm excited to have a little conversation about the things that didn't go in the film
0:55.0	because we spent two months together on expedition, Tommy and me biking to Alaska,
1:00.0	and we had all kinds of crazy experiences.
1:02.0	And the film definitely comes off as kind of a buddy adventure, support.
1:07.0	I don't know, I mean, it's focused more on our partnership.
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