Competitions were always like my first love.

I felt free there.

Even if at the end results matter, there's pressure, there's time limit and everything,

I feel free there.

I feel like I can express myself there, I can just show what I'm feeling there and I just show myself.

Alex, how many climbers out there get to go by one name only, especially your first name?

I feel like that's a sign that you've completely made it to the pinnacle of elite climbers.

Yeah, how many are there? I can think of Yuji, I guess, Japanese climbing royalty.

Sadly, they're what, like 10 professional Alex's? Alex doesn't mean anything.

You know, it's like, uh, who else, who else is there?

Yeah, I think we can both agree that today's guest qualifies on that list.

When I say Yanya, what jumps to mind?

Winning.

Just absolute dominance.

When I hear Yanya, I think winning.

It's anonymous for the 26-year-old Yanya Garnbret, who for the last 10 years has absolutely dominated competitive climbing.

Here's producer John Bergman, who has spent the better part of a decade covering Yanya

and the World Cup circuit.

I used to have in my notebook, I used to have a tally, like an ongoing tally of Yanya's gold medal count,

and it got to the point where I lost track because it's like, especially during the World Cup season,

every time an article would come out, it's like by that point, if there was another World Cup

that had started, it might be wrong.

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