What I try to think is I'm just this guy from the backstage trying to prepare the stage so that the best climbers in the world, they can show the best they can.

This is Adam Pustelnik. He grew up climbing in Poland and today he lives in Oslo, Norway.

He's got a pretty incredible climbing resume, kind of an all-around badass and he's

being pretty humble describing himself as a stage hand.

How did you get into climbing?

My father, he's a Himalayan climber. He climbed all of the 8,000 meters peaks and they've been out together with my mom in the

mountains and the dogs and this was the natural environment.

So family, yeah, family business you could say, quite a typical way as well.

Though it's hard to imagine a bigger contrast between climbing 8,000 meter peaks in the

Himalaya versus root setting in the gym.

Well, in a way it kind of explains things because, you know, if you get introduced to

an activity such as climbing and it was early 90s when I was discovering that, yeah, well, in fact, this is something

I'd like to do and I would really like to do. And then you've got your father who's doing 8,000

meters peaks and at the same time you're a young teenager trying to be rebel against everything

that's around you. And the first thing you can rebel against is like what your parent is doing

and he's doing these 8,000 meter peaks so you're going to go sport climbing and show him that this is

this is fucking best this is better you know it it's definitely much better than what you do and

I'm going to show you I'll be good at it so in a way you know all kind of you know comes together

what was your role in Tokyo?

I was the chief root setter for lead climbing on the Olympic Games, on this part.

So I was the head of the team that was preparing the routes for lead part of the competition.

Adam had a team of five, three other route setters and two other assistant setters who served

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