EP 244: Felipe Camargo — The Power of Drive + Creativity, Tropical Lines in Brazil, & Moonboard Endurance Circuits

The Nugget Climbing Podcast

Steven Dimmitt

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4.0 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Felipe Camargo is a professional climber from Brazil and the first South American to climb 9b (5.15b). We talked about his humble beginnings in climbing and selling soda to fund his first competition, training for 5.15 on a 3-meter spray wall, how signing with Red Bull changed his life, why we climb, what he learned from Patxi Usobiaga, his new film Tropical Lines, climbing hotspots in South America, his current projects, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends.
0:02.8	Welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast.
0:05.1	This is Stephen Dimmit.
0:06.7	And my guest today is Felipe Camargo.
0:09.5	Felipe is a pro climber from Brazil.
0:12.2	He is widely regarded as South America's top rock climber.
0:16.4	He was the first South American climber to climb the sport climbing grade of 9b or 515b.
0:23.8	This guy's an animal.
0:25.1	He's been climbing really hard for a long time and he comes from very humble beginnings.
0:30.2	We talked about his first gym that he trained at, which is a very far cry from the modern
0:35.5	training facilities we have today.
0:39.0	And yeah, he's got a great story that I think exemplifies just how far you can go with some determination and some drive and some
0:44.8	creativity. So yeah, I really enjoyed this episode. Felipe has a new film out called Tropical Lines
0:51.3	about him doing some first ascent in Brazil. It's a beautiful film. I highly recommend it.
0:56.1	It's about 35 minutes long. We talked about it in this episode among many other things.
1:01.5	All right, please enjoy Felipe Camargo. So, Cal, Cas, Cas. So, Felipe, I think the first time I became aware of you, like we do it, like we do it, like we do it, like we do it, like we do it, like we do it, like we do it, like,
1:16.5	so, Felipe, I think the first time I became aware of you was the thrill of Brazil films.
1:24.6	This is like nine years ago.
1:26.0	Those, like, two films on epic TV and I've just
1:29.5	been watching you get more and more tattoos over the years, which is which is really fun. But yeah,
1:34.6	back then that film you're like bouldering with Paul Robinson in Brazil and you do the FAA of Fort
1:40.4	Laza that V-15 and it's got that super cool shoulder move and just looks really badass.
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