EP 171: Leo Houlding — A Life of Adventure, Climbing Big Walls With Kids, and Epic Stories From El Cap

The Nugget Climbing Podcast

Steven Dimmitt

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4.0 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

Leo Houlding is one of the greatest adventure climbers of all time. He’s put up new free routes worldwide from the Amazon Rainforest to the remote regions of Antarctica. We talked about his upcoming trip to Baffin Island, his childhood in the UK, using the fix-and-follow system to climb 2000’ big walls with his kids, epic stories from his El Cap days, what he learned from his worst injury, and much more!

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1:09.3	Hello, friends. Welcome back to the Nugget climbingimbing podcast. This is your host, Stephen Dimmit, recording another intro from my little balcony here in Switzerland. And my guest today on the podcast is Leo Holding. If you liked my episodes with Robbie Phillips, Tommy Caldwell, Alex Honnold, I think you will
1:29.8	love this one.
1:31.1	Leo is a total badass.
1:33.0	He's one of the greatest adventure climbers ever.
1:37.2	He's climbed Everest.
1:38.6	He's put up a hard free route on El Capitan, The Prophet.
1:41.7	We talked about that one in this interview. He's put up new roots in the
1:46.2	Amazon rainforest and in the remote regions of Antarctica, places that literally you cannot get to
1:53.1	without a month long journey across a frozen continent. This guy has done so many badass things.
1:59.8	He loves adventure. It was really fun to hear
2:02.1	how he thinks about that. And it was fun to hear what he's up to these days. He's got kids and he's
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