Alpinist Podcast
1) Will Moss - One Step Further
New York City might seem like an unlikely place for a climber of Will Moss’s caliber to hail from. And yet, he managed to find his way from the climbing gym, to boulders in Central Park, to runout tra...Show More
2) Sonnie Trotter - Commitment to Climbing
When Sonnie Trotter was a teenager, he discovered a portal into another world. Entering the local climbing gym he found challenge, adventure and passion. By sixteen, he was all in, and he made it up h...Show More
3) Mary Catherine Eden: The Importance of Being Bored
While growing up in Kentucky, Mary Eden was often bored. But it was that boredom, she recalls, that helped her find meaningful interests as she explored her world. It led her to art and to adventure. ...Show More
4) Dawn Hollis: Flipping the Script on Mountain Relationships
Dawn Hollis has been obsessed with mountains since she was a small child growing up in Suffolk, which she describes as being “a really flat part of the UK.” Her first glimpse of more elevated landscap...Show More
5) Kai Lightner: The Last Six Years
Kai Lightner is no stranger to the spotlight—or to this magazine. He’s been climbing since he was six, when he joined the climbing team at a gym in North Carolina. Four years later Lightner won his fi...Show More
6) Babsi Zangerl on Learning, Growing and Flashing El Cap
Last year, Babsi Zangerl did something no one has ever done before—she flashed a route on El Capitan. Thousands of feet of hard climbing with no falls. Her partner, Jacopo Larcher, came really close, ...Show More
7) Rick Accomazzo: Tobin, The Stonemasters, and Me
Rick Accomazzo came of age in the climbing world as part of the Stonemasters—a name adopted by a group of friends largely climbing in Yosemite, Tahquitz and Suicide Rocks in the 1970s. To become a Sto...Show More
8) Other Everests: Hidden Histories & Contemporary Challenges
The events of one the most famous Everest stories took place a century ago, when George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared during the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition. A hundred years later, a...Show More
9) Climbing Isn't Everything: Beth Rodden
Beth Rodden established herself as one of the best rock climbers in the world at the height of her career. Through much of that time, Rodden was quietly struggling with her mental health as she tried ...Show More
10) Graham Zimmerman's Balancing Act
For all of his expeditions and cutting-edge climbs around the world, Graham Zimmerman’s story is one of balancing adventure and exploration with social responsibility and an examined life. His book, A...Show More