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" For me, I love to dream big, and I love to find ways to be a bit of an explorer. These days, it seems like everything is padded and comes with warning labels. "
Tommy Caldwell
Everything
Find
Dream
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" I am at a climbing area called the Wendenstock in Switzerland. This area has some of the best quality multi-pitch climbing I have seen on limestone. There is about a two-hour approach on one of the steepest grass slopes I have ever seen. The setting is amazing. "
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" I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation. "
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" The Dawn Wall and the Fitz Traverse were super-satisfying climbs. But I will always be searching for the next thing - the need to accomplish and explore are just woven into the fabric of who I am. "
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" El Capitan is the most chapping environment in the world: windy, cold, super dry. I wake up twice a night and reapply lotion to my hands. We sand our fingertips to keep them smooth. "
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" Through climbing, I've learned to find goals and work toward them. That's just the way I love to live. "
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" In rock climbing, people get strong enough, and then they pick goals they can do with their strengths at that moment. "
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" I have always let my motivation guide me, and that has served me well. Climbing has taught me how to thrive and created a life that I feel incredibly lucky to have. "
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Thrive
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" I travel and climb about eight months a year. That's pretty great training in itself. When I am home, I do a lot of bouldering, gym climbing, and specific strength training in a effort to get stronger for climbing. "
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Home
Gym
" I have a very distinct goal all the time that I'm working toward, and I love the way it makes me live. "
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Way
" My wife always says that I function better up on a big wall than I do anywhere else in life. "
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Always
" I've always been really curious about the limits of human capability. "
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Always
Curious
" Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it. "
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Stand
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" The types of climbing that I choose to do I'm good at justifying. I do really try and pick things that I'm going to live through. I don't want to die, and I'm relatively cautious. I play with that line all the time. I want things that are very exciting, so much so that they can feel almost spiritual. "
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Time
Die
Good
" In some ways, climbing in the clouds is comforting. You can no longer see how high off the ground you are. "
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Off
See
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