Ep. 536: Building the First Climbing School in Iraq - Ryan Shuler and Milosz Pierwola
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Imagine taking the adventure sport you love and being among the first to teach that sport in a part of the world that hasn't been possible until recently. That’s exactly what adventurer Milosz Pierwola and veteran Ryan Shuler are accomplishing in Iraq. Their plan is to build the first climbing school in Iraq in the city of Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdish Mountains. They’re fundraising to gather professional climbing equipment as well as build a climbing wall with local aspiring climbers, who have self-learned to climb solely from videos found on the internet. I hope you enjoy the story behind this epic project!
Also, if you can, get involved!
From the project’s website:
“Our project will establish the first climbing school in the country of Iraq, creating gateways where a culture once saw barriers, through their indomitable mountains. Classes will focus on rock climbing and mountaineering skills that will enable expeditions to discover the as of yet unclimbed local peaks. The program will take place in a successful community center established in 2007 that services over 1,500 children and adults. It will be headed by a group of Iraqi mountaineers who have overcome great adversity, such as forging their own gear, to learn how to climb. The facility is equipped with classrooms, theater/cinema, internet, and most importantly, 5 hectares/12 acres of land upon which we will construct a 9 m/30 ft tall climbing wall. In addition to the wall, we will deliver a complete assortment of climbing equipment and publish the first native language mountaineering instructional book, Basic Principles of Mountaineering, translated from French.”
More info about the project: http://adventuremilo.com/category/iraq/
Milosz’s Facebook: @AdventureMilo
Milosz’s Instagram: @adventuremilo
Milosz’s Twitter: @adventuremilo
Ryan’s Instagram: @thefattestclimberyouknow
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to us by Athletic Brewing, the makers of non-alcoholic craft beer |
| 0:06.2 | for athletes who take their training and their lifestyle seriously. |
| 0:10.8 | Save 15% at athleticbrewing.com by using the code adventure at checkout. |
| 0:17.2 | Also, CS Instant Coffee, 100% Arabica Instant Coffee, an individual compostable packaging. For |
| 0:25.2 | guilt-free convenience, it's perfect for the trail, office, fitness, etc. Go to CSInstant.comffee |
| 0:32.1 | and use the code adventure for 20% off. There is a culture there that it has access to these mountains and has resided in there. |
| 0:40.6 | Being able to kind of enable them to go into those mountains and climb them in a way that |
| 0:44.4 | they haven't before is something that really truly inspires me because it kind of resonates |
| 0:48.8 | with my identity as well. |
| 0:54.6 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast where we talk to athletes, adventurers, and business owners |
| 1:00.4 | from around the world of adventure sports. |
| 1:02.9 | Whether you're climbing Mount Everest, starting a bike shop, or getting up off your |
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| 1:28.3 | I hope you had a good weekend. Today's episode is with Ryan Schuller and Miloche Pierleva. They are teaming up along with some other folks here in the |
| 1:49.0 | States to go to Iraq and build the first ever climbing school with some local climbers there. |
| 1:58.3 | It's pretty incredible. It's going to be a lot of work. It's going to be a big |
| 2:02.0 | project and a lot is going into it. And so I'm really excited to just help promote the idea as well as |
| 2:08.0 | help promote what they're doing over there. A lot of, like Milosh is going to say, a lot of |
| 2:14.1 | unclimed mountains. So it's going to be a whole new world for the climbing world as well as |
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