EP 299: Herm Feissner — A Unique Training Philosophy at Age 53, Understanding Hard Moves, and Balancing an Engineering Career with Travel & Climbing

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4.2 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

Herm Feissner is a lifer climber based in Fort Collins, CO. We talked about doing the FA of The Practitioner V11 in Leavenworth, WA, in the early 2000s, his training philosophy at 53 years old, how his relationship with climbing has improved, balancing an engineering career with traveling and climbing, discovering and understanding moves, the boulder he is most psyched to complete, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast.
0:04.1	This is Stephen Dimmit, and today's episode is a conversation with an undercover Colorado-based
0:10.8	hard man named Herm Feisner.
0:13.9	Herm is a lifer.
0:15.4	He's been in the game and climbing really hard for a very long time.
0:18.6	You might recognize him from a recent video with tension climbing.
0:22.6	He was featured in their spray wall series. He's got probably the most beautiful and certainly
0:29.8	the most brutal home wall that I've ever climbed on in his basement. We had a session together
0:35.1	the day that we recorded this interview and talked about that a little
0:38.3	bit in the podcast.
0:40.6	He was also in one of the real rock films, the hardest moves featuring Paul Robinson
0:46.4	and Daniel Woods.
0:47.9	Herm was the guy giving commentary in that film.
0:51.1	Herm is based in Fort Collins, Colorado.
0:53.0	He's an engineer and has found a way to balance
0:55.7	a pretty conventional career with quite a lot of travel and climbing trips all around the world,
1:01.8	which was pretty interesting to hear about. We talked about his training philosophy at 53 years old
1:08.0	and how his relationship with climbing has improved over time and a lot more.
1:13.3	This is a good old laid-back chat about Herm's life, about climbing with a handful of nuggets
1:20.5	sprinkled in along the way. Please enjoy Herm Feisner.
1:39.0	Herm, Fisner. Herm, I think the first time I saw your name was in the original Leavenworth Guidebook,
1:43.7	next to a practitioner, which at the time was like,
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