Athlete

I didn't want to hike to the top of El Capitan and rappel down the route, and start fixing lines. For me it was really important to try to climb it from the ground up at first.

For meat, I eat mostly high-quality fish and chicken.

I do not climb really dangerous stuff.

If I'm climbing really slow, I kind of feel like, 'Hmm, this is weird.' Like a fish without water.

I shriek when I am climbing at my absolute limit, but never shriek in the warm-up or when trying the moves. No matter how terrible it might sound, it helps me.

When I was young, I loved the feeling of escaping to the rocks on a Friday afternoon with my parents.

I shriek when I am climbing at my absolute limit, but never shriek in the warm-up or when trying the moves. No matter how terrible it might sound, it helps me.

Normally, it's more efficient to climb fast.

I felt the strongest impulse to climb when I entered my first competitions.

I came to Flatanger with a plan in my mind to bolt a really, really hard thing that would be beautiful and keep me motivated to try it for a long time, in some underdeveloped area.

If I'm climbing really slow, I kind of feel like, 'Hmm, this is weird.' Like a fish without water.

My diet is mostly composed of whole-grain cereals, legumes, beans, lentils. Lots of cooked, baked, or steamed vegetables. Lots of spices like curcumin or cumin that help aid digestion. Some superfoods.

I think it's possible to climb the Dawn Wall in a single day. No matter what, it would be really, really hard.

The Dawn Wall is so obviously the hardest big-wall climb in the world, so that was the challenge.

Bouldering on real rock, which I'm more used to climbing on, is a lot more static and requires mostly finger power, whereas competition-style boulder problems are about coordination.

I was born into a climbing family.

Climbing in the Olympics would be my dream, but I'm not so optimistic that it will make it in 2020.

The harder routes you climb, the more interesting the climbing gets and the more crazy moves you are forced to figure out.

For the Olympics, I'm mostly training in the gym, so I'm running laps on the standard speed wall.

I finished my degree so I'm definitely hoping I have some more time to climb.