Introducing Climbing Gold

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

What connects the past, present and future of rock climbing? In season one of Climbing Gold, the sport’s biggest star Alex Honnold and co-host Fitz Cahall take you on a tour through climbing, from the early days of the lunatic fringe where dirtbag climbers gambled with their lives to chase the edge of human imagination, to today’s new generation of athletes who have risen to the top of their sport without ever having touched the world’s most famous summits. Pushing the boundaries of climbing has always meant challenging the assumptions and status quo of the previous generation. Athletes. Risk takers. Dirtbags. Pioneers. Community builders. Outsiders. Leaders. Please join us to hear the voices and stories of climbing’s past and future.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Fitz here.
0:02.5	So we're in between weeks on the diaries, but I've got something that I'm really psyched about that I wanted to share with you all.
0:08.2	I've been working on a new podcasting series for the last few years. It's kind of crazy.
0:13.6	And it really came together over the last year during
0:17.5	lockdown and
0:19.0	yeah, I've been hoping to work on a project where I could do a deep dive into a single topic that I was passionate about.
0:26.0	And I was really curious, you know, as the outdoors has grown,
0:29.3	what happens to a fringe pursuit or lifestyle when it starts to grow into the mainstream?
0:35.8	I wanted to ask a bunch of questions like what is the community risk losing and what does it stand again?
0:41.6	As luck would have it a friend of mine Alex was also interested in asking those questions and looking for those answers.
0:49.2	So for the last year our team has been hard at work making this project come to life.
0:53.4	The first two episodes release March 26th. Here's the trailer. We're very proud of it. So without further ado.
1:02.8	Oh God, as always, I'm not gonna make over and then thing gets nice X.
1:09.2	Classic.
1:10.2	April 2020.
1:12.1	Lost Vegas.
1:13.3	Okay, I am now recording on Grouchband.
1:19.5	Alex, where are you right now?
1:21.5	So I am sitting in a closet underneath my staircase. I guess is my gear closet.
1:27.4	I've got three ice axes within 18 inches of my face and and the whole rack of camps behind me and a bunch of shoes hanging on the wall.
1:36.4	Clearly, we've been able to bring the highest levels of production value to this operation.
1:40.9	Well, you know, everybody works from the space they have.
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