The harder routes you climb, the more interesting the climbing gets and the more crazy moves you are forced to figure out.
I don't really think about why I climb, I just simply love it.
If I'm climbing really slow, I kind of feel like, ‘Hmm, this is weird.' Like a fish without water.
I shriek when I am climbing at my absolute limit, but never shriek in the warm-up or when trying the moves. No matter how terrible it might sound, it helps me.
My diet is mostly composed of whole-grain cereals, legumes, beans, lentils. Lots of cooked, baked, or steamed vegetables. Lots of spices like curcumin or cumin that help aid digestion. Some superfoods.
I didn't want to hike to the top of El Capitan and rappel down the route, and start fixing lines. For me it was really important to try to climb it from the ground up at first.
What I like about climbing that it's so broad. For certain periods I can focus on sport climbing and then I can shift my focus more on the bouldering or I can shift my focus on climbing in the mountains.
I finished my degree so I'm definitely hoping I have some more time to climb.
I thought I knew how to jug, but when you only jug 30 meters to the top of a sport climb, you don't need good technique. But jugging 400 meters, that's a big deal.
For the Olympics, I'm mostly training in the gym, so I'm running laps on the standard speed wall.
I think it wouldn't be wise to lose the best years of my sports career at university.
I felt the strongest impulse to climb when I entered my first competitions.
I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old.
I've never had problems about passionate motivation to just keep climbing and keep training and pushing.
The Dawn Wall is so obviously the hardest big-wall climb in the world, so that was the challenge.
Because grades in climbing are subjective, I am fan of making big gaps between climbing grades.
I am full time athlete.
Normally, it's more efficient to climb fast.
I think it's possible to climb the Dawn Wall in a single day. No matter what, it would be really, really hard.
It's really difficult to climb effortlessly.
