Mike Cronin: A Climbing Life

For the last 15 years, South Dakota climber Mike Cronin has worked as a professional firefighter, a job he began because of its flexible schedule, which allows him to climb more than 200 days a year. Climbing has made me who I am today, he says. These days, Cronin balances his career with caring for his young daughter and developing new routes at his local crag, embodying what it means to, liveclimbrepeat. See more of his story here: