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Drew and Howared
I started climbing when I was 2.
My parents brought me to the climbing gym
and they have photos and me diapers climbing.
but it wasn't until I was 11
that I started lead climbing.
and so I consider that
to be the time when I
truly started I started leading.
so it's kind of a way of life
Definitely.
When you are climbing, you are constantly dealing with challenges.
Every route is different.
You are constantly overcoming, you are constantly fighting
to get to the top, or to climb the route.
And the whole time you are battling yourself.
So it's very rewarding.
You are battling fatigue, you are battling doubt.
You are battling stress, you are battling the rock.
Can you do it?
Do you have enough training, are you strong enough?
There's all these factors that come together when you're climbing and to overcome that is one of the greatest feelings that you can achieve.
It takes you to some of the most amazing places in the world that most people will never see or never go to.
About a year or two ago I went to Germany and Austria and I climbed in the Alps in Franconia and in Austria and St. Gilgen on Limestone.
And now I'm here in Mexico and I'm climbing back on Limestone.
This limestone is a lot cooler, I think, because the stalactites form some of the most incredible climbing.
Just three-dimensional. You're constantly hugging features, moving across them, gripping, pinching.
So it's a lot more fun, there's a lot more movement.
We are here at the base of El Mexicano Paradido.
It's graded 514B, which is one of the harder routes in Mexico.
It was put up a few years ago and the Petzl Rock trip came and quite a few athletes tried it.
And so since then it's only seen maybe a handful of ascents.
The line follows the steep horizontal hanging a rat.
The route is really bouldery, it's very techy too.
You're kind of on small crimps with your left hand and pinching and your right hand on slopey pinches.
And you go for 7-8 bolts of kind of 513 climbing.
And you hit the first crux, which is a V9 or a hard boulder problem.
And at the very end of that crux there's this huge throw and you hit a jug and you get a relax.
You get a quick shake and you get a quick rest.
And then you get mentally prepared.
And then it's a sustained V8 boulder problem to the top.
With your left hand you're climbing on a thin seam and your right hand you're kind of just slapping up the right side of the rat.
And it finishes on a tricky 12 plus mantle to a thin slab so it has a little variety of everything.
Ahhhh!
You climb for yourself because you achieve it and it's for yourself.
Yeah, it's mental, physical and emotional. It's frustrating falling on the same move when you can hang there for 2 seconds and then just do it.
Like why am I falling? I can do the move, I can do everything.
You grab the hold and you can feel the pain, the little crimp cutting into your finger where you can feel the doubt.
Like oh I might not be able to make it.
If I keep falling on one hold or one move it kind of gets in your mind like oh I'm going to fall, I'm going to fall, I'm going to fall.
So you have to find some way to like beat it, just fight through it.
And then once you do it, the adrenaline kicks in and it's amazing.
Ahhhh!
Ahhhh!
Alright, check.
Here, Lar.
Lar.
It takes a lot too.
You have to want it. You have to really want it for yourself and no one else.
It has to be truly for yourself if you want to do it.
Thank you for watching.
Thank you for watching.
