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Climbing Gold

The Power of Negative Thinking

Climbing Gold

Duct Tape Then Beer

Wilderness, Sports

4.9983 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Big, audacious dreams come with real risks. The dreamers are presented with a labyrinth of physical hazards, possible outcomes, hurdles, and dead ends. Often, we are told that success comes down to positive thinking, but maybe there’s a flip side to that coin. Few people have thought about risk more than Will Gadd, pioneer of modern mixed and ice climbing. And he’s got a lot to say. We also get some insight from Brette Harrington.

Transcript

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0:00.0

you can dream of doing these climbs all you want but to actually like move forward and

0:13.2

and do it is like something else you have to like be able to put yourself in the position of your dream.

0:21.2

That's a scary aspect of all of this.

0:24.0

Brett Harrington is a very skilled alpinist, rock climber, big mountain skier,

0:28.9

basically all around mountain woman.

0:30.6

Yeah, like the Swiss Army life of alpinism.

0:33.5

I find every style of climbing interesting.

0:36.1

So I do pretty much every style.

0:38.3

I'm not that good at bouldering, or I wouldn't say I'm like an elite athlete in every style,

0:43.3

but I do find every style interesting.

0:46.3

Brett, will you tell us about Chiaro de Luna?

0:49.3

That year I didn't have a partner in Patagonia, so I was picking up partners right and left,

0:53.3

and then I found,

0:55.0

I just looked at Chiatta di Luna and it looked amazing and I immediately wanted to solo it.

1:01.0

It was 5-11.

1:02.0

Chiara de Luna is a 2,000 foot route up St. Exupri, which is one of the spires and the Fitzroy

1:09.0

Massif. And it's a pretty classic 511 minus is supposed to be really clean, good granite, very nice

1:14.9

climbing.

1:15.3

I've never done it, but it's supposed to be incredible.

1:18.4

Yeah, so that line was just like attractive to me and the style felt really good.

1:22.4

So at that point, I felt confident in 5-11 free soloing.

1:26.6

So I just felt like soloing Chirode-Luna would be

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