Filming The Climb with Chris Sharma & Cat Runner

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🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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At a young age, Chris Sharma was considered a climbing prodigy and won multiple competitions. He established some of the most challenging routes around the world, and pushed the sport forward technically and culturally. Recently, Chris and his longtime friend, fellow climber and actor, Jason Momoa, came up with the idea to produce a competitive reality show based on rock climbing. Their creative brainchild has become the binge-worthy TV show, The Climb— available on Max, previously known as HBO Max. Today, Chris talks about what it was like to make the series, and we hear from Cat Runner about his experience on the show and his climbing community, the Queer Climber's Network.

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0:00.0	A few years ago, I interviewed Chris Sharma, one of the most influential climbers of all
0:06.2	time.
0:07.2	At a young age, Chris was considered a climbing prodigy and won multiple competitions.
0:12.8	He's established some of the most challenging routes around the world, and he's pushed
0:16.8	the sport forward technically and culturally.
0:20.1	Recently, Chris decided to go after a different type of wild idea.
0:24.8	Ian, his longtime friend, fellow climber and actor Jason Memoa, came up with the idea
0:30.1	to produce a competitive reality show based on rock climbing.
0:34.6	Their creative brainchild has become the binge-worthy TV show The Climb.
0:43.4	So Jason and I decided to start a competition to inspire the next generation of climbers.
0:51.6	10 amateur climbers with the dream of becoming professionals will go head-to-head on some
1:00.1	of nature's most incredible rock.
1:04.5	Oh my god.
1:10.8	This is a competition, and if you have the ability to win, then you need to take it.
1:19.0	The Climb is available on Max, previously known as HBO Max.
1:23.6	Today on the podcast, Chris talks about what it was like to make the series and later on
1:28.2	will hear from the winner of the competition.
1:31.0	That means this episode contains spoilers for the Climb, so if you're interested in the
1:35.2	show, put this episode on pause and don't come back until you've seen who wins it all.
1:41.3	Consider yourself warned, I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is wild ideas worth living.
1:47.9	And REI co-op studios production.
1:52.6	Johnny and I got really into watching The Climb earlier this year.
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