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The Enormocast: a climbing podcast

Enormocast 284: Emma Twyford – Getting on With It

The Enormocast: a climbing podcast

Chris Kalous

Sports, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Wilderness

4.9 β€’ 1.5K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 284 of the Enormocast, we connect across the pond to North Wales in the U.K. and into the living room of Emma Twyford. Emma is a pioneering woman in that rarified air of hard, desperate trad that only the old country can serve up. She is the first British woman to climb 9a …

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0:00.0

You are listening to the Enormo Cast.

0:05.0

All right, all right, settle down everybody, settle down.

0:08.0

Okay, Black Diamond C4, take it away.

0:12.0

Okay, is this thing on?

0:14.0

All right, everybody.

0:15.0

I know you have a few questions after a long winter of ice climbing.

0:18.0

So yeah, you in the back, the Tradadadad with the Sigg.

0:22.0

So it seems like I've had Black Diamond you in the back, the Tradad with the Sigg.

0:22.8

So it seems like I've had black diamond camels

0:25.8

hanging off my rack since 1987.

0:28.8

How are you still so high on the horse, boy?

0:31.1

Well, that's called evolution my dog

0:34.0

B.D retools and redesigns on the rag I'm lighter stronger with every upgrade

0:38.8

huh too bad we can't say the same about you huh tried dad

0:41.6

I can still handjay.

0:43.0

Okay, who's next?

0:45.0

Yeah, the comp kid who crushes Trad now.

0:48.0

My mom bought me three sets of Ultra Light Camelot.

0:50.0

Well, kid, those Ultra Lights are sweet. Light, fast, smooth, all the things, but not everybody

0:56.2

has a mom with a platinum card willing to buy her snookums, whatever she wants, now do they?

1:00.8

And trust funds don't grow on trees. They come from decades of swindling the general public out of something, maybe even their trees.

1:07.0

And who's got time for that? So yeah, Ultra Lights are swell. The Ferraris. But us C4 Camlots, we're down here in the trenches with you every day know what I'm saying like the cam equivalent of your Tacoma just ask the creek climbers over there

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