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Wilderness, Sports

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🗓️ 26 May 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

When a bad breakup sent him spiraling into a deep depression, Tom Ireson fixated on an unconventional way to get his head straight: "I really needed something to focus my mind on to pull me out of that," Tom says, "and about the biggest thing I could think of was to try and do a new route on a big wall." Not just any big wall, a big wall on the other side of the world in the remote and wild valley of Cochamo, Chile. When he latched on to the idea, Tom had never been to Cochamo and never climbed a big wall, much less established a new route on one. Today, we've got one for you about how, if you find yourself at the bottom of an impossibly deep hole, sometimes it takes an equally impossible goal to pull yourself out of it. If you want to hear more from Tom, check out his 2014 Short, 'Go For It'.

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0:57.6	wild.
1:05.9	I distinctly remember driving back is quite a windy mountain road through to where
1:11.4	I lived. I was going reasonably fast and I was fighting the urge to just let go
1:19.6	the steering wheel. It was really like difficult to fight that urge. This is Tom
1:25.8	Arison. He just gone through a nasty breakup and had a noctum into a downward
1:30.4	spiral. My life plans were sort of all linked to our relationship that had all
1:35.3	changed and I didn't really know what I was doing with my life. It really felt
1:40.5	like the rug had been pulled from underneath me and I couldn't see what
1:44.3	direction to go in to make myself better. I was drinking a lot, I was smoking a
1:49.6	lot. I never really was going climb in unless I had to for work. So all my free
1:57.2	time was just spent abusing my body really.
2:02.5	But looking up from the bottom of a big enough whole perspective has a way of
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