Here's a cool video of our climb on the West Buttress of Denali, 6'130 meters.
-Co host Max
AMGA Guide Joshua Reinig has established over 2000 FA's! His dedication and love for establishing new routes has opened up areas and routes for other guides to use as "trade routes".
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Tune in to Epiode 18 to hear the whole story.
Ever heard of someone who survived being decked from 500ft while attached to a helicopter... after having there foot basically severed off from a boulder?! Neither have we.
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Tune into Episode 18 w/ @senseijoshu to hear how he survived.
Episode 18 is LIVE!
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In this episode, we sit down and talk with AMGA guide Joshua Reinig. I met Josh about 7 years ago when I first started climbing. His immediate willingness to share his knowledge and stoke helped shape me into the climber I am today. Throughout his climbing career, Josh has led over 6000 guided trips, established over 2000 first ascents, and is currently in the top 25 all-time contributors to Mountain Project. His deep excitement for climbing and passion for sharing it is contagious energy to everyone around him. In this 2.5-hour conversation, we talk about Josh’s past and how he came to be an AMGA guide involving a freak accident that almost cost him his life. We dive deep into what it means to be a mentor, explain how to manage fear & risk, go over the ethics behind the creation of first ascents, and finally talk about Josh’s most recent undertaking, the creation of the Mt. Whitney Climbing Ranch.
in episode 16, we sit down, in person, with Jack Ryan an adaptive trad climber and mountaineer and founder of Paralyzed to Peaks. Jack is not your average trad climber. On November 29th Jack’s neck was crushed in an illegal move done by his blackbelt instructor during a Jiu-Jitsu sparing session. He suffered a broken neck at C4-C5 resulting in paralysis from the neck down as well as numerous strokes due to blood clotting the following morning. He lost everything that day and has been fighting to regain it all ever since. Since his life-changing injury, and having never climbed before, he has begun to forge a new path in the world of adaptive climbing. In August 2020, in tandem with the founding of Paralyzed to Peaks, Jack Ryan became the first and only individual with a spinal cord injury and incomplete quadriplegia to summit mount Whitney and is currently the only individual in the world with incomplete quadriplegia taking the sharp end on sport/trad climbs. He has a large vision for the future including several large technical mountaineering objectives and aims to change the world's perception of adaptive athletes.
@harveyharvey in episode 15 available now on Apple, Spotify, Google etc
Episode 14 we have a conversation with Max Lurie who is an AMGA certified rock and alpine guide. We talk about good and bad ways to obtain knowledge, how to get the most out of your experience with a guide and how to prepare for objectives. Check out @alpinetothemax for the amazing free content that he provides for the outdoor community. Listen to the episode and let us know what you think @the.climbing.majority
Episode 14 is now LIVE!
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"Climbing Talk w/ AMGA Guide @alpinetothemax
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In this episode, we sit down with Max Lurie. Max is an AMGA-certified Rock and Alpine guide and an accomplished alpinist. We get his perspective on several topics, including risk and social media. We talk about the best and worst ways of obtaining climbing knowledge, what it's like to hire a guide, how to best prepare for an objective, and how even a professional guide gets criticism and shame in his DM's.
In the sport of climbing, we are almost always focused on what's happening on the sharp end, the leader, the art of climbing. But what we seem to miss is that without a belayer climbers are free soloing. While climbing, our ability to stay attached to the wall and the gear we place are our primary line of safety, but our belayers are the ones that in the end save our lives when we make mistakes. We feel that the art of belaying is underrepresented and feel that it needs to be talked about and given more appreciation so in this episode, we sit down with Cody Bradford, an AMGA Rock Guide, to discuss his background and thoughts on the topic of belaying.
James Pymn, is a British climber who loves routes with character, even if that means assuming lots of risk. From free soloing large multi-pitch routes to leading 7c (12c) trad routes with obligatory 8m (24ft.) runouts, James has had a climbing career one could say is of "full value". In this episode, we take a look into James' life as a climber, discuss the elusive British grading system, and talk about his accident involving a 70ft fall and an obliterated calcaneus, all while in a foreign country 1,700 miles from home.
James Pymn, is a British climber who loves routes with character, even if that means assuming lots of risk. From free soloing large multi-pitch routes to leading 7c (12c) trad routes with obligatory 8m (24ft.) runouts, James has had a climbing career one could say is of "full value". In this episode, we take a look into James' life as a climber, discuss the elusive British grading system, and talk about his accident involving a 70ft fall and an obliterated calcaneus, all while in a foreign country 1,700 miles from home.
New Episode for The Climbing Majority is out! This time we sit down and speak with Josh Ourada, a climber who survived a harrowing 175ft fall while free soloing "The Nutcracker" in Yosemite Valley. His story has been covered in Climbing Magazine and talked about across the web, and for good reason. Beyond the miracle of his survival and the details of his accident, we dive into the ethics behind free soloing, how media plays a role in our perception of risk, and what life is like on the other side of cheating death.
In Episode 9 @brox_rocks interviews @robkepley_photography and they discuss the role of safety in the media and whose responsibility it is to promote it. Check out @the.climbing.majority on your favourite podcatcher I.e Apple, Spotify, Google etc.
Who's responsibility is it to promote safety?
We have noticed a lot of shame in the climbing community. Shame for being a beginner, shame for getting injured, shame for being involved on social media, and the list continues.
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In Episode 9 we go over how shame has been playing a role in our community and discuss alternative ways to provide healthier forms of feedback.
🔥 NEW EPISODE! 🔥
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Episode 8 "Helmets, Shame, and Social Media"
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Kyle was cruising Instagram one day and stumbled upon a post by famous climbing photographer Jim Thornburg titled "100 Classic Crack Week". In which, all ten pictures featured climbers sending super hard classic tad routes...without a helmet. After looking into the comments Kyle found that someone had expressed concern over this and got completely shamed for it. In this episode, Max and Kyle dive deep into the controversial topic of helmets, explore why there seems to be so much shame and negativity built into our sport, and discuss the positives and negatives of social media for the everyday climber.
Rae and I raced in the biathalon. This will serve as video evidence that I was out raced, out shot and lost after completing the loop of shame three times. This sport is rad! Guns and skiing are a wonderful combination.