Finding Yourself in Climbing with Mario Stanley

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Mario Stanley started rock climbing in his early twenties before becoming a climbing coach and an outdoor guide which eventually led him to starting his own company, Highpoint Expeditions. He’s learned over the years that climbing is about more than scaling to the top of a wall. It's is an exercise in freedom, trust, and pushing through fear.

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0:00.0	But I look at suffering as like, it is the effort, it is the amount of toughness, it is
0:06.3	the amount of everything that you're willing to go through to have the shot to potentially
0:12.7	reach your objective.
0:14.0	Our climbing is a tremendous amount of failure for one moment at a success.
0:17.4	So you need to digest that in a really healthy way where that feeling serves you to help
0:23.2	you keep pushing towards the process.
0:27.4	Mario Stanley knows all about the challenges of rock climbing.
0:31.0	He's been scaling and bouldering walls within without ropes, inside gyms, and out in nature
0:35.6	for 15 years.
0:39.4	The sport gave Mario a sense of direction at a time when he was feeling lost.
0:44.1	His years of experience have allowed him to turn rock climbing into a full time career.
0:49.0	Mario coaches kids and he guides adults on outdoor adventures.
0:52.8	As a mentor, Mario has learned that climbing is about more than just scaling to the top
0:57.0	of a wall.
0:58.0	It's an exercise in freedom, trust, and pushing through fear.
1:03.7	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living.
1:10.2	A lot of Mario's students are between ages 3 and 18.
1:14.4	Three sounds pretty young I know, but you should check out the videos of the kiddos climbing
1:18.6	on YouTube.
1:19.6	It's wild.
1:20.6	Mario on the other hand didn't start climbing until his early 20s, but the sport basically
1:25.8	took over his life.
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