TBP 016 :: Steph Davis on Training for Alpine, Sport Climbing, Free Soloing, FFAs, and Veganism

Published: Feb. 10, 2015, 2:04 a.m.

I got to sit down with the great Steph Davis the other day and chat about her training for climbing, her vast accomplishments, her FFAs, her free soloing exploits, her diet, her wing suit flying, and all kinds of other stuff.

\nAbout\xa0Steph Davis\n

I can't really do her resum\xe9 justice, so I'm just going to let her\xa0Wikipedia page\xa0do it for me.

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Stephanie\xa0"Steph"\xa0Davis\xa0(born 1973) is an American rock climber, BASE jumper and wingsuit flyer. She is one of the world's leading female climbers,\xa0having completed some of the hardest routes in the world.\xa0She is the only woman to have free solo climbed a 5.11 climb, the first woman to summit all the peaks of the Fitzroy Range in Patagonia, the second woman to free climb El Capitan in a day, the first woman to free climb the\xa0Salath\u0117 Wall\xa0on El Capitan, the first woman to free solo The Diamond on Long's Peak in Colorado, and the first woman to summit Torre Egger.

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Here's what we talked about:

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  • How she trained for her free solo ascents on the Diamond
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  • How she trained for her alpine ascents in Patagonia
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  • How\xa0she trains for Rifle
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  • Whether or not FFA's really matter
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  • Her vegan diet
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\nMusic\n

Intro and outro song:\xa0Yesterday by Build Buildings\xa0

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