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RMA: Growing up in the East in the USA doesn’t necessarily inspire a lot of climbers? Chris: I grew up in New Jersey, and the town parole officer dragged me into the woods for five days on a hoods-in-the-woods trip, one of the first Outward Bound alternative programs in the country. RMA: So what was the trouble? Chris: I was extremely entrepreneurial. That’s how I got in trouble. Not to go…

Looking Down on Everest

Astronaut and Space Shuttle Commander Terry Virts has had the rare opportunity of looking down on the summit of Everest. In his podcast interview with me, we talk adventures, from mountains to space. With quite a few stops in between. His perspective of crossing over South America – the blue of the sea, the brown of the plains, the white of the Andes, the green of the jungle and then back to the…

The Denali Double – Celebrating Birthdays on the Top Of North America

On the 4th of July during my 7 summits solo project, I’d just completed my ascent of the Messner Couloir, and was having what I felt was a well-deserved rest day in the 14.2 Camp.  Then I handed over the video camera so my photographer Joseph Blackburn could review the shots I’d taken from the summit ridge on Denali… ‘Wow, this looks incredible, is this really what it looks like?’  Joe was…

Conquering Doubts While Surrounded by Cyclones – Who Will Summit Everest and How to Decide to Go Up, Go Down, Or Just Go Home?

While Cyclone Tauktae departs the Everest area, Cyclone Yaas moves up from the Bay of Bengal and is headed North towards Nepal. The vital weather window to reach the top of the world has now been squeezed into a few short days. Looking out from Everest’s Hillary Step to the West. Cho Oyu center and Shishipangma on the horizon left. The view is even better when you have climbed them both too. Over…

“How many pull-ups can you do?” Myths dispelled and real training for the heights.

We were working out a complex, new boulder problem at the base of Redgarden Wall in Eldorado Springs, Colorado, outside of Boulder. David Breashears was there, Mark Wilford and a few others, all of us going up and down to work on the moves. It was more short climb than a Boulder problem, not a height you would want to fall from. It was hard, up until about 30 feet up, and then it got very hard…