If you didn’t live in the “best place on earth” what would be your second pick?
Arco, Italy.
So I suppose I don’t have to ask you where your favorite overseas climbing area is then.
Yes, but I also like Patagonia. Arco is awesome because it’s kind of like Moab, except Italian, and limestone instead of sandstone, and a massive terminal base cliff instead of short ones. But Moab is still better, of course.
What’s on your Christmas list this year? Nothing. I want nothing. Seriously!
Nothing!? I’m easy to shop for.
Did you have any New Year’s resolutions this year that actually happened? Well. I don’t make New Year’s resolutions because that makes no sense to me. I was born on November 4, so New Year’s Day is not a year. I do that on my birthday.
So you must have just made some. But it’s kind of different from resolutions, actually. I always try to do something on my birthday that is something I hope I will be doing a lot in the year to come. So this year on my birthday I was doing wingsuit BASE. jumps in Lauterbrunnen.
Wow. And then I pay attention to the things that happen on that day, because I feel like that has some implication too.
Speaking of, why did BASE jumping stick so hard with you? A lot of things. There is a lot to learn and it exemplifies freedom in many ways. I also feel very comfortable with people who are living on the fringe. As normal as BASE seems to me, I’m realizing that it is still very little understood or accepted by many people.
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