Noah Wheeler & Michael Rosato — Finland 2025 Trip Report, Burden Of Dreams and The Sisu Project

About this episode

Noah Wheeler discusses his recent climbing achievements and revisits his trip to Finland with Michael Rosato.

This episode originally aired as a Patreon exclusive on December 6, 2025. After a battle with conditions, injuries, and a heartbreaking dab, Noah Wheeler just sent Burden Of Dreams V17/9A. This week we revisit his first trip to Finland with Hamish McArthur, and Tension Climbing's Michael Rosato, where they checked out Burden, and the infamous Sisu Project. Join Patreon: HERE Follow us on Instagram: HERE Visit our podcast page: HERE

People in this episode

Guests: Noah Wheeler, Michael Rosato

Topics covered

• climbing
• trip report
• Finland
• Burden Of Dreams
• Sisu Project
• injuries
• adventure

Keywords

• Noah Wheeler
• Michael Rosato
• Burden Of Dreams
• Sisu Project
• climbing
• Finland
• trip report
• injuries
• adventure

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Burden Of Dreams, Sisu Project

Places: Finland

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