Peter Croft

Elite climber Peter Croft shares his struggles and breakthroughs in Training, Nutrition, Tactics, and Mental Game.

 

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It's hard to overstate the impact Peter Croft has had on the sport of rock climbing and on inspiring generations of climbers. He is an incredibly well rounded climber, though perhaps best known for his impressive free solos, many hundreds (maybe thousands of them at this point), including Astroman and The Rostrum in Yosemite. Amongst Peter’s other most notable climbs are the first free ascent of Moonlight Buttress in Zion, Venturi Effect in the high sierra, and Solar Flare on Incredible Hulk. Over a 40+ year career I could spend all day talking about what Peter has climbed so I’ll wrap it up with just a couple other mind-boggling accomplishments on big walls: He was the first to link up El Cap and Half dome in a day, which he did with his good friend John Bachar… and he was the first to onsight The Shadow in Squamish, which is a stunning 5.13 that went unrepeated as an onsight for more than 30 years (and some really big names tried it). Peter is an absolute master of endurance and efficiency, born from decades of soloing up and DOWN routes and linking up incredibly long traverses. There’s likely no other climber in the world as intimately familiar with movement over rock than Peter is, especially when it comes to multi-pitch granite and crack climbing. He is as impressive as he is humble, and this conversation is so full of wisdom and genuine stoke I just know it’s going to fill your heart.

 

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CHAPTERS:

Struggle: 0:16:02

Training: 0:22:47

Nutrition: 0:35:56

Tactics: 0:42:26

Mental Game: 0:55:13

Purpose: 1:11:44

Takeaways: 1:21:50

 

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Follow along on Instagram @thestruggleclimbingshow. Do you want to climb with the legend himself? You can hire Peter as a guide and enjoy the greatest day of climbing in your life -- simply drop him an email at petercroft100@gmail.com.

 

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The struggle makes us stronger. Let's climb hard and do good things in the world!