Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast.

This is your host, Stephen Dimit.

My guest today is Alanna Yip.

Alana is a professional climber from Canada.

She is 30 years old and is coming to the end of her competition career.

She plans to retire after the Paris Olympics. She is trying to qualify

right now and just competed at the first qualifying series in China. We've got another one in one

month, so anything could still happen. And yeah, she's had an amazing career. She is already

an Olympian. She competed in the Tokyo Olympics for Team Canada. It was really interesting to hear about her experience in Tokyo and some of the lessons from Tokyo that she's been using to prepare for the qualifying series for Paris. I really enjoyed Atlanta. She's an open book. She was totally game with digging into some pretty

uncomfortable topics. If you follow her on Instagram, you'll know that she got diagnosed with

alipatia back in December and lost all of her hair and ended up completely shaving her head.

And I wanted to know what that journey has been like for her and what she's been through

and where she's at with it now. And yeah, I don't want to say too much about it here, but it was a really

great conversation. She's also experienced an eating disorder as a teenager and it wasn't related

to climbing performance, which was interesting to learn, but she still cares passionately about

that topic. And she's been involved with the IFSC to help

put better policies into place for screening and trying to prevent eating disorders and red

s in athletes and she's spoken publicly about that so i wanted to hear some of her thoughts and

we got into the challenges that the IFSC is facing and the complexity of the whole thing.

And the good news is things are moving in a positive direction.

So yeah, all in all, a great conversation.

We covered a lot of ground.

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