On Episode 60, we record a live one on Climbing Lawyer Dan Markoff’s deck overlooking Boulder, Colorado. Climbers Topher Donahue and Chris Van Leuven join me for a discussion of what it takes to lose that new climber smell, and replace it with old trad-climber stink. The sometimes contentious discussion ranges from toothbrush shaving, to … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://enormocast.com/2014/07/episode-60-building-a-better-climber-w-topher-donahue-and-chris-van-leuven/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Episode 60: Building a Better Climber w/ Topher Donahue and Chris Van Leuven"</span></a></p>

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Episode 60: Building a Better Climber w/ Topher Donahue and Chris Van Leuven

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.”