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Climbing Gold

Southern Climbing: Underrated or Overrated?

Climbing Gold

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8849 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Alex has climbed all over the world, but he’s never visited some of our country’s best climbing areas. Today, three devoted southern climbers – Andrew Kornylak, Karen Lane and Colette McInerney – lay out the case for why the Southeast should be on his tick list.  Watch Climbing Gold on YouTube Thanks to our sponsors The North Face Check out Summit Series at thenorthface.com  LMNT  Get your free LMNT Sample Pack with any purchase at www.drinklmnt.com/climbinggold. Try the new LMNT Sparkling — a bold, 16-ounce can of sparkling electrolyte water. Kodiak Cakes Find Kodiak products at your local grocery store, they're the ones with the bear on the box or learn more at Kodiakcakes.com TurtleboxTake your music anywhere turtleboxaudio.com Want Climbing Gold ad free? Check out ⁠Unroped

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0:00.0

We do river days where I'm literally fishing, I'm bouldering on the river, maybe like shallow water

0:07.6

bouldering on the river.

0:10.5

Bring your pad, bring your rod, you're fishing, you're grilling, you're climbing, like,

0:14.7

it's great.

0:15.7

Alex, why is Las Vegas the best place to be a climber?

0:23.4

It's so great.

0:24.9

The climbing is incredible, obviously.

0:27.2

There's a lifetime supply of hard roots, big roots, adventure routes, you know,

0:30.9

trad climbing, sport climbing, bouldering, whatever you want to do.

0:33.3

There's even ice climbing in the winter and skiing in the winter.

0:36.1

But it's just, it's so good.

0:38.1

You can literally come outside any day of the year.

0:40.2

Yeah.

0:40.5

Like there's basically never bad weather.

0:41.8

And even in bad weather, you could climb in other places if you were motivated enough.

0:45.0

You grew up in California.

0:46.7

You spent a lot all your life there.

0:47.9

Like, at this stage, does Vegas, does Nevada feel like home to you?

0:52.6

Yeah, I think Vegas is definitely starting to feel like home. I mean, partially because I now have a family here and I'm like raising a family, you know, it just feels homey and that we're like building a life here. But also I think that Vegas never felt that dissimilar to me than Sacramento where I grew up because it kind of has the same suburban hell. You know, lot of things that people hate about Vegas like the strip mall nature and just like

1:13.2

suburbs sprawling forever is how I grew up in California so I'm kind of like you know

1:16.9

this isn't any worse except that the climbing is world-class and it's way cheaper

1:20.7

and it's easier and there's a great airport you know I'm kind of like man

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