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Will Moss - One Step Further


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New York City might seem like an unlikely place for a climber of Will Moss’s caliber to hail from. And yet, he managed to find his way from the climbing gym, to boulders in Central Park, to runout trad routes in the Gunks and big walls in Yosemite. It was there that he recently made headlines as being the first person to flash a big wall free route on El Cap in just one day. 

Moss started climbing in his neighborhood gym when he was ten. For some perspective, that was only a decade ago. It was love at first climb, and he hasn’t looked back since. At first, he mainly focused on indoor competition climbing. But when gyms closed during the COVID-19 pandemic he started getting outdoors more. A friend introduced him to the Gunks when he was sixteen, and, as he says, “that’s where the dream of trad climbing began.”  

Now twenty years old, Moss’s 22-hour push on El Cap this May was the culmination of more than two years of planning. In this conversation, we talk in depth about the historic climbs Will is ticking off at a young age, and what he’s planning next as he takes a semester off from pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering to chase his climbing dreams.

This episode is brought to you with support from Rab Equipment.

Host: Abbey Collins

Producer & Engineer: Mike Horn

Guest: Will Moss

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