Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget climbing podcast. This is Stephen Dimmit. My guest today is

Sonny Trotter. Sunny is a Canadian professional rock climber and pioneering first ascensionist.

First ascent of the cobra crack and the path and Pineapple Express on Lcap and the Canadian

Rockies trilogy. Second Ascent of Rhapsody,

Dave McLeod's E-11 in Scotland. He's also climbed Ambrosia, the famous V-11 highball in Bishop,

California. His list of accomplishments go on and on and on. Most importantly, Sunny is one of

the most likable and friendly and kind people you'll

ever meet. I really enjoyed this conversation. We spent about half of it talking about his life

and family history and raising kids and how his life as a pro climber has evolved. And then we got

into more of his climbing achievements,

how the cobra crack changed his climbing career, some of his training as a teenager and how it's

evolved, and the progression of climbing in general. And we talked about his book, which has been out

for about a year now. It is titled, Uplifted, The Evolution of a Climbing Life and features

a collection of great stories from his climbing. I really enjoyed it and highly recommend it,

and we honestly barely had time to cover any of the stories in the book. So definitely worth

checking out. We also mention Will Stan Hope in this episode. We recorded this five or six weeks ago,

and I just learned about Will's accident and about him passing away two days ago. And in case

you haven't heard, Will Stanhope was killed in a climbing accident in Squamish on April 23rd. He was 39 years old, and it's obviously

a huge loss to the climbing community. I had Will on the podcast really early on, episode nine,

and I only spoke with him a few times. I was on a climbing trip to Bishop, California,

when we crossed paths and did that interview.

And I really liked him.

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