DP: I was confident at about 5.9, , I got in over my head and this rock called nightcrawler, a 5.11- and it was run out about 10 feet and I lost my balance, and I popped out from the wall and then came right back into it. I just lost my composure due to fear. My ankle was shaking too hard and it shook me off the wall.

DP: Well being an electrician, it is easier just to climb up into the rafters to pull wire, and this freaks out the plumbers and drywallers, the carpenters are a lot like me, it might be 30' 5.4 access up in the entrance ways of some of these houses, and they have ladders and I don't , I just start climbing up the wall and head up into the attic with the wire, I don't fuck around with no ladders. You gotta trust those framers and hope that they nailed that shit in good.

     I have been told that my climbing career started quite early, my dad was military, we was military kids, and we were stationed in Ethiopia, Africa, and the place we stayed, security was high and there was bars on the windows, the second story window, and we were 2 or 3 and we were small enough that we could slip through them, and we would get on the outside of the bars and hang on the bars, and it would terrify the maids, or I think they were called nannies. My mom had a babysitter for the both of us, and we would just put her through it. This is just second hand, this is just what I hear.

DP: Yeah, he climbs on the kitchen cabinets and dressers.

TR: So you think it is innate?

DP: Yeah I think it is hereditary, since the primate, I think climbing is innate in all humans.

M,TR: Is there anything that would have give up climbing, like a serious injury?

DP: Probably not. I am going to have to get killed or put in a wheel chair before I give it up.

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