On Episode 22, Andrew Bisharat and I discuss why hard climbing is so important to everyone. We hit on grades, appropriate hero worship, why Americans are the lifestyle climbers of the world, and how Ecstasy, sex, and climbing go together . Also, unbeknownst to him, we decide that Chris Sharma is the world’s saddest climber. … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://enormocast.com/2012/11/episode-22-climb-hard-and-walk-tall-with-andrew-bisharat/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Episode 22: Climb hard and walk tall with Andrew Bisharat."</span></a></p>

The Enormocast: the climbing podcast

Episode 22: Climb hard and walk tall with Andrew Bisharat.

With 35 years of climbing experience and going on 14 years behind the mic, Chris Kalous brings interviews, tributes, discussion, tears, and lots of laughs from the full breadth of the climbing zeitgeist. Rock climbing, bigwall (big wall?) climbing, alpinism, ice climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing. If it’s climbing related, it’s here. In the words of Alex Honnold, “If you are a climber, you pretty much have to do the Enormocast.”