EP 248: Thomas Huber — Exploring the Impossible, the Stone Monkey Era, and Finding Freedom in the Mountains

The Nugget Climbing Podcast

Steven Dimmitt

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4.0 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Thomas Huber is a German rock climbing and mountaineering legend. We talked about his most recent expedition to Pakistan, how to have fun at basecamp, exploring the impossible, his first trip to Buoux as a teenager, beer diets, his relationship with his brother Alex, challenges, silver linings, partying with the Stone Monkeys in Yosemite, his new book Freiheit, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast. This is your host, Stephen Dimmit.
0:07.2	My guest today is German rock climbing and mountaineering legend Thomas Huber. I'm really honored to
0:14.9	have Thomas on the show. Thomas has a new book out called Freihite. It's available in English
0:20.7	and German, and apparently
0:22.0	it's coming soon in Spanish and Italian as well, but it's essentially his life story.
0:27.1	And if you enjoy this episode, I highly encourage you picking up a copy. But yeah, Thomas Huber.
0:32.5	I'm sure most of you have heard of the Huber brothers. Thomas has an incredible resume that spans everything from
0:38.9	514 sport routes to really hard multi-pitch first ascents to really dangerous and very technical
0:47.3	and very impressive 7,000 meter peaks in Pakistan. So we talked about a little bit of everything,
0:53.5	talked a lot about one of his recent
0:54.8	expeditions to the Choctoy Glacier, trying Laytok 3 and Laytok 1. And we also talked about
1:02.0	partying in Yosemite with the stone monkeys and a lot more. So be sure to check out his new
1:08.4	book, Fryheight, and please enjoy Thomas Huber.
1:12.0	Cause, Casas, Cas, Cas.
1:15.3	No one can do it like we do it, like we do it, like we do it like we do it like we do it.
1:23.6	Like we do it like we do it.
1:23.7	Hey, Stephen.
1:26.7	Yeah? Hi. Yeah. Hi, Thomas. Nice to meet you. Hey, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Yeah. I'm excited about this, man. Yeah. Me too. Me too. Thanks a lot. And thanks a lot to invite me. Oh, it is my honor. It's an absolute honor to have you here. I, uh, I've been a huge fan of the Huber brothers for a long, long time, mostly because of your rock climbing, of course, from Yosemite and, and all those sorts of things. But, uh, but yeah, I loved your book. We have a lot to talk about. Ah, really? You read my book. So, yeah. I haven't quite finished it. I'm around two, I'm page
2:03.7	290. So I, so it's appropriate that I haven't finished. I don't know how the story ends. I get
2:09.4	to ask you myself. Okay, okay. Yeah. Yeah, it's great. It's wonderful to, uh, to read about your
2:16.9	life and read all those crazy stories.
2:19.7	And man, so many injuries that you've sustained over the years, so many times that you've been knocked down and really had to get back up and come back stronger than ever, which is just incredible.
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