4.8 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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0:00.0 | So North Face, sponsoring climbing goal this year. |
0:02.5 | Alex, what is your action suit? |
0:04.7 | Well, my action suit. |
0:05.7 | Actually, when I'm at home, I think of it as my outdoor clothes because I actually do everything |
0:09.2 | in either outdoor clothes or indoor clothes. |
0:11.2 | And so my outdoor clothes are the super dirty outdoor, the synthetic layers, the fleeces, |
0:17.3 | the puffies, the pants. |
0:18.8 | I think I took this from Mark Twight maybe, but I do often think it was my action suit. |
0:23.7 | You're like, oh, this is the suit you put on to go outdoors. |
0:26.2 | I mean, particularly on expeditions like Antarctica, where you literally can't leave your tent |
0:30.1 | without your action suit on because the conditions are so extreme. |
0:33.2 | Like, you can't even get out of bed without putting on all the layers and the correct layers with the the the wicking bottoms and the mid layer and the outer layer and the waterproof layer that's like |
0:42.7 | in the most extreme environments you do really have to wear the suit it's like going to space like even |
0:48.2 | even when I'm doing casual climbing at home I'm sort of like oh you may as well have the warmest thing |
0:51.6 | the lightest thing and so I'm basically always using Summit Series, which is athlete tested, expedition proven. |
0:56.6 | Whatever you practice in is what you want to perform in. |
0:59.2 | If you're doing scary climbing all the time in a particular pair of pants, a particular jacket, |
1:03.5 | you know that they fit, you know how they move, like that's what you're going to wear for the extreme things as well. |
1:07.8 | The North Face has you covered. Find your action suit at the |
1:10.8 | northface.com. That feeling of blinking turns on a 53, 56 degree face with like three inches |
1:25.2 | of snow on top of blue ice and over huge exposure. That's what I'm |
1:30.0 | searching for. The climbing is just to get up there so that I can ski back down. |
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