EP 210: Stefano Ghisolfi — Chasing the Impossible, Using Humor to Send, and Two Drills for Legendary Endurance

The Nugget Climbing Podcast

Steven Dimmitt

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4.0 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Stefano Ghisolfi is an Italian professional climber and one of the most accomplished sport climbers in the world. We talked about racing bikes growing up, discovering climbing, using humor in his YouTube videos, how having fun helps him send, why he loves projecting limit routes, chasing the impossible, trying ‘Silence’ 9c, sending ‘Excalibur’ 9b+, two drills for legendary endurance, supporting his girlfriend Sara through hard times with her health, and much more!

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast.
0:05.9	This is your host, Stephen Dimmit.
0:08.2	I am very excited about today's guest.
0:10.8	My guest today is Stefano Gisofi.
0:14.4	Stefano is a 31-year-old professional rock climber from Italy.
0:19.0	This guy is one of the titans of our sport.
0:21.2	He's in the top three or four or five people in the world when it comes to sport climbing.
0:27.0	He's done some of the hardest routes in the world.
0:29.4	At the time of this recording, Stefano has climbed four routes rated 515C or French 9B plus, including his own first descent of Excalibur, which he did last year.
0:41.6	We talked about that in this interview.
0:43.6	He is currently training to try to qualify for the Olympics, and he has been trying
0:48.3	Adam Andra's route, silence, the first 9C in the world, for several seasons now.
0:53.3	And it was really fun to talk to him about that as well.
0:55.8	I really loved talking to Stefano. He's really inspiring, and he just seems like a really genuine good guy.
1:03.3	We had some fun, we had some laughs, he told some great stories. I think you guys will really enjoy this one.
1:09.9	So without further ado, let's dive in. Please enjoy,
1:13.9	Stefano Gassauphi.
1:33.7	Stefano, it's great to meet you you thank you so much for being here and um i'm really looking forward to getting to know some different sides of you i've followed your youtube channel for quite a long
1:38.5	time and so i feel like i know current stefano quite well and i've gotten to know old
1:43.2	stephano a little bit as well
1:44.6	he's made some appearances on your YouTube channel but I thought we should I thought we
1:48.3	could start by getting to know young Stefano I would love to hear a little bit about
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