Chapter 3.

This is how you spell climbing.

So I kind of saw the sport go from something where people knew nothing about climbing and they would say,

you know, are you a rock collector?

No, no, I'm a rock climber.

So in other words, I started when people didn't even know what rock climbing was.

Randy Levitt is probably one of the most underappreciated climbers in America because I think

he might be the only person to have put up 514 sport first ascents, 514 trad first ascents,

and A5 Big Wall first ascents on El Cap in

in Yosemite.

So, I mean, basically he has climbed at an elite level across every discipline of the sport.

And he base jumps, and he big wave surfs, and he's a pilot.

I mean, he's just, he's like, you know, who's the, I was like, not Jason Boren, who's the freaking, you know, the spy.

I'm a blanking on the whole freaking.

James Bond?

Yeah, James Bond.

I'm like, Jesus Christ, I just couldn't think of James Bond.

I was like, all I can think of was Randy Levitt.

Today, we are picking up 50 miles to the south of Red Rock, where we left off in Chapter

2.

It's the wide open Mojave Desert near the California-Nevada border.

Clark Mountain was something that I had seen from the air going over commercial flights,

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