Year In Review

Climbing Gold

Duct Tape Then Beer

Wilderness, Sports

4.9 • 983 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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2025 – what a year in climbing. Jonathan Siegrist and Leici Hendrix join us to break down the highlights. First woman to climb 5.15c. V17 in a session. El Cap flashed in a day. The next generation is now firmly in the driver seat and ready to carry climbing into its next chapter. 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

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0:00.7	Alex, I think we both agree that 2025 has been just an incredible year to be a fan of climbing,
0:08.4	like not just be a climber, but like to actually be someone who loves this sport.
0:12.2	It has been awesome to witness.
0:14.7	It's the end of the year.
0:16.3	What are we doing today?
0:17.7	Today we are doing a roundtable.
0:19.6	We brought some friends of the show on and we are
0:21.8	going to chit chat about what we think some of the most cutting-edged sense of the year are and why
0:25.9	and what that means for climbing and basically just argue around the campfire as it were. Joining us today
0:31.5	our longtime friend of the show Jonathan Seagrist and our executive producer, Lisi Hendricks.
0:36.5	I'm Alex Arnold.
0:38.7	I'm Fitzgerald.
1:08.2	This is Climbing Gold. All right, so for a long time, we predicted that climbing's conclusion in the Olympics would have a profound impact on our sport.
1:12.2	Essentially that it would pull all this elite talent, that talent would receive coaching and training. And the reality, though, would be that there would be fewer spots
1:17.6	on national teams than there was talent. And that talent would have to go do something. It would have to
1:22.6	go climb somewhere. And eventually, it would get applied outside.
1:31.4	Is this the year that our longtime hypothesis has finally been proven?
1:36.9	We should name our hypothesis the trickle-down theory of talent and climbing.
1:38.0	I like it.
1:40.2	We can write an advanced research paper too.
1:40.6	Yeah.
1:42.7	Yeah, it's like trickle-down economics.
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