The Greatest Lie Chapter 2: Disneyland

Climbing Gold

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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With doubts circling in the press, Cesare Maestri returns to Cerro Torre with hundreds of bolts, a compressor engine and gallons of gasoline intent on conquering the mountain. What ensues borders on madness leaving the next generation to untangle Maestri’s lies and correct an abomination. Thanks to our sponsors The North Face Momentous Peak Design Dr. Squatch Watch Climbing Gold on YouTube

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0:00.0	Previously on Climbing Gold.
0:03.0	People had started hearing about this place called Patagonia.
0:07.0	I don't think there's anywhere in the modern world that's as remote as Saratori would have felt in the 1950s.
0:13.0	Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony.
0:16.0	But unlike the other teams, Mari would actually say the thing that everyone was thinking.
0:22.0	He said, we're coming back alive from the impossible Serro Torren.
0:27.6	It's a great story. The problem is it didn't happen.
0:32.8	This is part two of the greatest lie.
0:35.3	A four-part series about one of climbing's greatest controversies.
0:39.3	Sometimes, writing a wrong comes at a cost.
0:42.1	I'm Alex Honnold.
0:43.3	I'm Fiske Hall.
0:44.4	And I'm Lauren Delany Miller.
0:46.0	This is Climbing Gold.
0:48.2	Chapter 2. Disneyland.
0:58.3	It's 1970, and Chaser A. Maestri is back on Saratori.
1:00.7	This time, he's got a score to settle.
1:05.7	He's been slighted by his fiercest rival, the Italian climber Carlo Mari.
1:10.5	After being doubted by the climbing community for his supposed assent of Saratorea a decade earlier,
1:11.0	this time nothing will stop Maestri from forging a new route up Saratore.
1:16.9	He's come prepared with a big team and a serious budget.
1:20.3	For this route, Meistery had acquired a new sponsor, Atlas Copco.
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