LISTEN: [RealPlayer] [Windows Media] (Requires a FREE media player to listen) Click for Photos MountainZone.com: You've done so many amazing things in the mountains. How is it that you're able to stay in physical shape to climb like that? Weihenmayer: It's weird because as you become a successful climber, there are a lot of demands placed on you, you know, lots of speaking and sponsors and things like that. And now I have a family, I have a beautiful 2-year-old daughter, so it's harder and harder to stay fit and focused because there's lots of things pulling you in different directions, but I like to adventure. If I can get out in the mountains for a day, or I can ride my bike up on some really cool route that I've always to do or do some trail run that I've always wanted to go and explore, then I'm working out but I'm also adventuring at the same time. Sometimes you can fool yourself, you don't even know you're exercising until you come home thrashed that evening. So combining exercising with adventuring is, I think, the way to go. But sometimes I am reduced to just an hour or two a day on my step mill or going to the tallest building in Denver and run up the steps with a 50-pound pack, things like that which are hideously boring but you got to do it. MountainZone.com: Well I think all of us out here in the mountains appreciate the success you've had Erik Weihenmayer and we appreciate you taking the time today, on the completion of your seven summits, to talk to MountainZone.com. Weihenmayer: Thanks, Peter. « Back to Question 1 [Top] [Climbing Home] [MountainZone.com Home]