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Found ourselves in the middle of this war.

Like we saw people shot point blank right in front of us.

We were hostages running from the Kyrgyz military for six days,

and we had to abandon all of our food and warm clothing. We lost like 20 pounds of weight each.

This is the Adventure Sports Podcast, where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the

planet. We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around them

and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun.

So today's episode is from late 2018.

It was actually one of the first episodes I did, like right after I took over the podcast in 2018.

And we were very lucky to be able to talk to Tommy Caldwell about his film,

The Don Wall.

And if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend you checking it out.

It's got 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

And it's just an amazing film. And as you heard in the clip at the very beginning of the episode, Tommy's story is crazy.

He was kidnapped, and he lost a finger at another time in live. For a climber, that's a big deal, of course. But he just got a crazy story. Great guy. We were very fortunate to talk to him. And this is definitely one of my favorite episodes, but it is a revisited episode because it's Thursday. We do revisited episodes on Thursday.

And also I want to say thank you for making last month the best month of the show ever. We had

way more downloads than usual and this month is on track to do even better. So thank you. The

show is growing. But anyway, back to Tommy. If you don't know who Tommy Caldwell is, he's one of the world's greatest climbers. And this project he did called the Don Wall will put him in the history books of the world of Big Wall climbing pretty much forever. He did a route that was essentially considered impossible, physically impossible, and he was able

with his partner, Kevin Jorgensen, to do this over 19 days. It was such a big deal in 2014

that President Obama tweeted about it and talked about it saying, you know, how impressed he was,

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