What quirks of the Half Dome experience made the ascent so daunting?
The nature of the climbing on that route is super insecure. It’s technical and thin, all the things that I normally don’t really like climbing. Just the hike up to the base is intimidating. It’s a big wall and it looms above you for two hours while you hike up from the Valley floor. You have to be pretty psyched to even hike up there, let alone to start climbing. It’s a big f‘ing wall. You have to sit at the bottom to appreciate it. Joining The North Face team has granted you a lot of international climbing opportunities in the past year. How has the diversity of stone influenced your skills? Did you pick up any new techniques on the English gritstone or the big walls of Borneo? I learn something new everywhere I go. Whether it’s a local technique for doing things or just a particular way to climb a particular kind of rock. On the grit we learned about protecting such dangerous routes – new ways to belay, new ways to approach the routes. It’s sort of subtle though. Traveling broadens y
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