Train smarter

Because the mountains don’t care about your excuses

The mountains demand that we adapt.

They do not care about brands, followers, or excuses.

Everything offered here was built by a flawed human chasing that adaptation.

It was tested on boot-packs with death falling from above, and in the frigid cold where gear fails. It was refined fighting headwinds in pouring rain, and traversing glaciers days after the food was lost. It was applied on the road to recovery from hubris — and across twenty years of coaching athletes from every domain of adventure sport.

Perhaps it can offer some guidance as you prepare to find your edges.

-Ian Holmes

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