Factor Two Podcast
1) Birth Pains of New Nations - Pete Oxley
The whims and motivations of climbers really are another world to the person in the street. Understanding them is crossing a threshold, it requires a certain suspension of disbelief to start to see th...Show More
2) Hateja - Louise Thomas and Glenda Huxter
If you had to select your late 90s dream team for a British, all-female Himalayan big wall trip, you couldn’t go far wrong with this one. Glenda Huxter was onsighting E7, Kath Pyke had extensive exper...Show More
3) Finding the Balance - Katherine Schirrmacher
We all get enjoyment from climbing for different reasons. For many of us those reasons change over time, according to our geography, time, money and other pressures in our lives. I’ve read Katherine S...Show More
4) El Capitan - a film by Fred Padula
In the spring of 1968 San Francisco film maker, Fred Padula, drove into the Yosemite Valley and gazed up at El Capitan. He had been approached by one of his film students, Glen Denny, a talented climb...Show More
5) Hard Grit - Rich Heap, Niall Grimes and Seb Grieve
When it was released in 1998, Hard Grit gave us an insight into something we didn’t often see - the actual ascents of the hardest, most dangerous lines on grit. In an era before everyone had a smartph...Show More
6) A Play for Voices - Helen Mort and Anna Fleming
When you look at the books on a shelf of mountaineering literature one thing is quickly apparent: the vast majority are written by men. The same is true with the episodes I’ve produced for Factor Two....Show More
7) Brave New World - Tom Livingstone and Twid Turner
It’s hard to be truly disconnected these days. Even in the weirdness of isolation over the past few months many of us have been working from home, constantly bothered by the connections around us. Som...Show More
8) Deep Play - Neil Gresham and Dr Rebecca Williams
"I climb better when I'm scared." I've heard this quite a few times. I even thought it was true about myself for a while in my earlier climbing career, but it surely can't be true? After speaking with...Show More
9) Walking the Magic Line - Hazel Findlay and Dr Rebecca Williams
Flow is a concept that can divide in climbing. For Dave Thomas it was the joyous experience that removed him from other problems in life. For Mina Leslie-Wujastyk it was a performance tool. Mina told ...Show More
10) The Moment You Doubt - Ben Bransby
Many of the stories in Factor Two feature the same scenario - What next? You always imagine ticking the big goal might be enough, but it rarely is. For Ben Bransby and Jvan Tresch it seemed obvious wh...Show More