If you can pitch your walking through a parking lot with a ski mask rolled up on your head

and a pistol in your pocket, and as you're walking through the parking lot and getting closer

to the bank, your heart's beating faster, adrenaline starting to rush through your head,

and you can't believe you're about to do what you're about to do.

This is Roland Thompson.

And when you get to those doors and pull the ski mask down over your face and pull a loaded

pistol out of your pocket and cock the hammer back, the adrenaline rush of that is incredible.

And I don't know that there's any adrenaline rush that's exactly like that.

But when you're climbing a route that you've never done before, and it's a greater to

above what you're comfortable with, and you're a few feet above that bolt, and you can

see the next bolt, but you've got a few moves to go, and you've got a dynamic move coming

up.

What I'm going to do is, it's definitely the same intensity, but it's just cleaner.

I don't know, you want to talk about Robin and Mike, it's just intense.

It's this crazy intense feeling that's also like, it's got a very tangible dirtiness

to it, because you know, like you're basically saying, I'm going to risk my life for whatever

they have in the till at the time.

It's pretty dirty.

Typically, we tell stories about climbing, skiing, outdoor adventure, etc.

But from time to time, a member of our outdoor community has a story about a crumbling desert

tower or a far-flung place, but about a moment or situation that most of us could only imagine

or relate to in what we've seen in an over-the-top Hollywood film.

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