Christopher Wall

Age: 38, Years climbing: 20, Hometown: Boulder, Colorado, Favorite product: Solution

Do you clip bolts, plug cams, stack pads, or crush ice?

I stack pads.

How long have you been an athlete with La Sportiva?

8 years

What are some of your lifetime climbing goals?

To keep it fun for me, and help others get the same.

Do you have a claim to fame?

I've worked at a climbing gym that I don't own for longer than anyone.

Do you have any vices?

I sometimes wear fur and feathers.

What makes you tick as a climber and in the real world?

There's a real world?

What drives you to climb? The money? The groupies? The fame? What?

There's a flood coming, and the only safe place is the high ground.

What is your favorite movie?

The Blade Runner.

Do you have any nicknames? Explain:

Zen Puppy. The best and worst of both, without the pooping and peeing on the floor part.

What’s the longest you’ve gone without sleep? Why?

80 hours. Munich - London - New York - Reno - Black Rock City.

If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which would it be?

Idaho.

What did you have for lunch yesterday?

Lunch?

If you could hook up a thought monitor to your head, would you see pictures, hear words or would music be playing?

Words. Not necessarily sentences.

What really scares you about climbing?

The fashion options.

If your life was made into a movie, what would it be called?

Re-stating the Obvious

Where would you live if it could be anywhere in the world?

The Shire.

Have no food or have no gasoline?

I'm solar powered.

Do you wish you had sexier feet?

As if that were possible.