You're going to go. This is the Sharp End, a podcast from Accident and North American mountaineering with me Ashley Sapi.

Thanks for tuning in.

I've been working in the outdoor industry for about 10 years.

I've been working as a trainer, instructor, and course instructor for the Outbound School

based in Colorado and Alaska.

And this has been a huge part of my life in terms of personal growth and appreciating the

value of how the environment can directly affect this. I often read the books that the American Alpine Club

publishes annually called Accidents in North American Mountaineering. I get into the incident reports

that come out from the Out-bound School as as well as a NOL school and I'm constantly trying to learn from other people's mistakes.

Now as every person in the outdoor industry knows, we were always on the move.

We are transient folk who sacrificed a lot to make the mountains or office.

All this time spent traveling to and from seasonal jobs, different states, and

climbing crags gets me thinking. I wonder how much time us diehard folks spent on the road going to and from place to place.

And how can we be most efficient with all that time spent on the road?

So I decided in a long solo trip to the Teton's that what I wanted was to plug into a

podcast that would contribute to making me a smarter mountain person. I decided that I

wanted to plug into a podcast that was going to teach me something.

So there it is.

The Sharp End was born.

My goal here is to talk about the mountains, to share experiences, to deliver you interesting near misses and

our ensign from the outdoor world so we can learn, grow, and become more experienced

mountain people. So thank you for listening to the first ever episode of The Sharp End, brought to you by the American

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