Climbing on the Bookshelf Podcast
1) Roping up with Steve Part 2
Fifty Classic climbs of North America (winner of the 1995 AAC literary award) a.k.a. "The Book" is one of the most influential guide books of its time and even still used today! This interview with th...Show More
2) The Smart way
David Smart is known for his historical climbing biographies and in depth research on his subjects. Paul Prues, Emilio Comici and now Royal Robbins gets the Smart treatment, all being pioneers of thei...Show More
3) Dancing, Discovery and the Doctor with Mimi Zieman
Mimi Zieman has treated frozen limbs on the highest mountain, delivered triplets near the deepest ocean trench, tap danced through Broadway studios, and has been a suburban mom of three – all experien...Show More
4) Roping up with Steve Part 1
In the 1950's and 60's Yosemite Valley was the centre of the rock climbing universe. Camp 4 was the gathering place for the "Golden Age" of Yosemite climbing. Steve Roper lived in Yosemite Valley for ...Show More
5) NOW That's What I Call Research VOL 2
We go again with Deucey to chat about his research for his two volumes of work "Mechanical Advantage, Tools for the wild vertical". Kindly and readily available to download as a PDF or to order and ow...Show More
6) NOW That's What I Call Research VOL 1
John "Deucey" Middendorf is one of the 70's, 80's & 90's big wall pioneers and has climbed all over the world from Baffin Island to El Cap to Pakistan. His Portaledge design revolutionised big wall cl...Show More
7) A Library of sports with Katie Quinn
Katie Quinn AKA The Sports Librarian reviews and recommends sports literature online. Her real passion is the outdoors and mountaineering literature where I chatted to her about this, and other stuff ...Show More
8) The Golden Age of mountain literature with Katie Ives
Katie Ives is a renowned writer in the international climbing community, her first book is Imaginary Peaks the Riesenstien Hoax and other climbing dreams where she details the mystery of the Hoax with...Show More
9) The Conquest and the Crown with Scott Ellsworth
"The World beneath their feet" is Scott Ellsworth's fourth book shifting his usual focus of lecturing at University of Michigan on Afroamerican and African studies, to the Himalayas, where a great sum...Show More
10) A Feeling for Sock! with Sarah-Jane Dobner
A Feeling for Rock author and 2021 Banff Mountain Literature Award winner Sarah-Jane Dobner sits in her attic and then moves downstairs to chat about her book, inspiration for it and all things climbi...Show More