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The Enormocast: the climbing podcast

Enormocast 323: Cole Brauer – Every Day the Sea

The Enormocast: the climbing podcast

Chris Kalous

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

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Cole Brauer joins the Enormocast after becoming the first American woman to race solo around the world in the Global Solo Challenge in 2023. The 30,000‑mile circumnavigation pushed her through storms, gear failures, sleep deprivation, and the kind of isolation only found in climbing in places like Baffin Island. During the race, Cole became its …

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0:00.0

You are listening to the Enormo cast.

0:04.2

The year is 2016.

0:07.2

We're still reckoning with the sudden mainstream interest in TCKJ and the dawn wall.

0:13.1

Climbing had been confirmed for the Olympics,

0:15.5

and the whining about speed climbing was just getting ramped up.

0:19.9

Though his magnum opus silence remained in the future, Andra is tearing up 515, and J-Star

0:27.1

is too, just a little more quietly, as is his way.

0:31.6

TikTok innocently appears in September, and we remain blindly unaware of what a social media climbing influencer is.

0:41.3

But perhaps the most groundbreaking climbing leap in 2016, at least according to this commercial,

0:47.7

the introduction of the Sportiva Squama. So futuristic, it remains cutting edge 10 years on. No one thought a high-performing

0:56.6

shoe could handle all terrain and feel this good doing it. Yet there it was, in our hands,

1:02.9

on our feet, and nestled in our souls like a little baby bird quietly cooing.

1:08.5

And to mark this monumental moment in climbing history,

1:11.8

Sportiva has introduced a celebratory color scheme for the 2026 Squama,

1:16.6

while retaining its essential nature as the baddest shoe in the land.

1:20.1

So go back to the future and head over to Sportiva na.com or your favorite local shop

1:26.2

and check out any permutation of the legendary squama and then ask

1:30.4

yourself one thing what would you do for the send we got to listen uh uh where you're playing in town

1:36.6

you're playing here we're doing the uh normo dome whatever it is it's terrific oh yeah the big place

1:41.9

that's sold it out.

1:45.1

What's that?

1:52.4

I'm doing.

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