Written in Stone: Climbing’s Most Important Ascents Podcast
1) The Thumbs Up: Sharing Lanes And Circling Back in 1980s Climbing.
After a few weeks of thinking about it, I've put my finger on what I learned about climbing by looking back at the 1980s, and I'm ready to reveal where we go next season. Subscribe to our YouTube Chan...Show More
2) Jordan Cannon on The Free Salathe, How to Climb Pitch 19, and Why Style Matters
Today, in the final interview of the season, we are talking to young legend in the making, Jordan Cannon, who is fresh off of an incredible season of big wall climbing. Most important for this convers...Show More
3) Mark Hudon on Free As Can Be on the Salathé Wall, Skinner and Piana's Ascent, and Experience Vs. Trophies
Mark Hudon is a bonafide climbing legend. One of the best free climbers of the 70s and early 80s, he and partner Max Jones looked past convention and moved hard free climbing to the big walls of Yosem...Show More
4) Steve Bechtel on Skinner, Piana, Friendship, and Community
Steve Bechtel is a Wyoming climbing legend who moved to Lander when the limestone at Wild Iris was discovered and helped to develop it alongside Todd Skinner and Paul Piana. In this episode we discus...Show More
5) Paul Piana Telling the Story of the Aftermath of the Salathe Wall Accident
I recorded Paul Piana telling this story at the 2018 International Climbers Festival in Lander, Wyoming. Paul spoke as part of our Houlihan Narratives live story telling event.
6) Paul Piana and Todd Skinner Free The Finest Rock Climb On Earth (Part 2)
After causing a ruckus in Yosemite Valley and Index, Todd Skinner didn’t slink away. He looked up. Way up. At El Capitan. He and Paul Piana had been dramatically influenced by an article written by Ma...Show More
7) Paul Piana and Todd Skinner Partner Up and Push The Boundaries (Part 1)
By the middle of the 1980s, the shift to sport climbing was in full swing. Two Wyoming cowboys, Paul Piana and Todd Skinner, recognized that the strength they’d gained from sport climbing would give t...Show More
8) Rob LeBreton on Snowbird And Australian Sport Climbing in The 1980s
Rob LeBreton wears a lot of hats. First, he’s a long time friend of the show, but he’s also a dad, husband, gym owner, former president of Sport Climbing Australia, and absolute climbing legend - the ...Show More
9) Alan Watts on Setting for Snowbird, The Drama That Unfolded and The Comp's Importance to American Indoor Climbing
Alan Watts is widely recognized as the father of American sport climbing and a leading developer at Smith Rock. However, most don’t know about his impact on the indoor climbing industry in the US or t...Show More
10) Showdown(s) At Snowbird | Edlinger vs. Tribout and Destivelle vs. Hill
In 1985, 19 of the top French climbers signed a manifesto against competition climbing. But competitions came anyway. Quickly, most of those same signees defected - becoming the climbers to beat at ev...Show More