Amity Warme on Cobra Crack: Lessons from Not-Sending, Route-Specific Training, Micro-Underfueling, and Doing Her Hardest Routes with a Ruptured Pulley

The Struggle Climbing Show

Elite climber Amity Warme shares her process, struggles, and learnings as she projected (but hasn't yet sent) one of the hardest trad routes in the world, Cobra Crack.

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Amity is a trad and big wall crusher, boasting ground-up ascents of El Nino, El Corazon, Golden Gate, and the Freerider routes of El Cap, plus other hard trad lines such as Book of Hate (13d / 8b) which she recently sent with a fully ruptured A2 pulley. In this conversation we discuss:

• Why she chose Cobra as her hardest project yet
• Going from 9 days as her longest project to more than 30 for Cobra
• Training on the project (and why it didn't work)
• Sunk Cost Theory, and questioning whether the struggle was worth it
• The emotional rollercoaster of projecting at her limit
• Shoe beta
• The impact of 'micro-underfueling'
• Sending her hardest routes in the Valley... with a fully ruptured A2 pulley

Follow along on Instagram @amity.warme and @thestruggleclimbingshow

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