EP 287: Domen Škofic — The Red Bull Plane Project, Rediscovering Passion in Flatanger, and Trying Silence 9c

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4.2 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Domen Škofic is a Slovenian professional climber and a 5x World Cup gold medalist. We talked about his Red Bull Plane Climb project, skydiving, building a climbing gym with his father, retiring from the competition circuit, taking up archery, rediscovering his passion for climbing, sending Move 9b/+ in Flatanger, trying Silence 9c with Sean Raboutou, training lessons, and much more.

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0:00.0	Imagine climbing an 8A route or 513B while wearing a 12 kilogram backpack, that's 26 pounds,
0:08.4	with 60 mile an hour winds in sub-freezing conditions, and the route is moving while you climb.
0:17.3	You're going to hear about that in today's episode.
0:19.7	My guest today is Domen Schofetz.
0:22.1	Domen is a professional climber from Slovenia.
0:24.9	He was a climbing prodigy and won the climbing youth world championships in 2011.
0:30.1	He's also won five World Cup gold medals in lead and was the overall lead World Cup champion in 2016.
0:37.0	He has since retired from competition climbing and is climbing really hard on rock.
0:42.3	He sent his hardest route to date, Adam Andra's move in Flathanger earlier this year,
0:47.1	9B slash plus or 515B slash C, probably one of the top 10 or 15 hardest routes in the world.
0:53.8	And now he has his sights set on even bigger things.
0:57.0	You'll hear about that today as well.
0:59.3	And this one was super fun.
1:01.6	Domen was just wonderful to talk to, really introspective guy,
1:06.1	had some great reflections on retiring from competitions
1:08.9	and rediscovering his passion for climbing and he's a
1:12.6	red bull athlete and has done some pretty epic collaborations with red bull including the plane climb
1:19.3	which we talk about a lot in this episode red bull put out a nine minute video about a month ago
1:25.4	featuring domen attempting the world's most extreme
1:29.3	climb. It's freaking awesome and just so Red Bull. I highly recommend pausing this and watching that
1:35.4	video if you haven't seen it yet or watching it after you listen to this episode. I watched it
1:40.6	and thought it was super impressive. And now I think it is so much more impressive.
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