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  • Kelsey Gray - A World of Routes

    May 12, 2026 · 40 min

    When Kelsey Gray tells people he grew up in Houston, they immediately think he's talking about the city in Texas. But he's actually referring to Houston, Alaska. Though he spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid, he didn't venture into the…

  • Alita Contreras - Woman Warrior

    May 7, 2026 · 47 min

    In the film Guerreras, Alita Contreras is shown preparing for a long, traversing rock route on a cliff in Colombia. Her dog by her side, Contreras mimes the moves, headphones on, eyes closed, meditating on what she's about to climb…

  • Peter Mortimer & Nick Rosen - The Dark Wizard

    April 14, 2026 · 30 min

    Climbing documentarians Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen are known for films such as "The Alpinist" and "Valley Uprising." Now the directors are out with a four-part documentary series "The Dark Wizard," which premieres on HBO Max on April…

  • Will Moss - One Step Further

    August 27, 2025 · 35 min

    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 trad routes in the Gunks and big walls in…

  • Sonnie Trotter - Commitment to Climbing

    August 13, 2025 · 41 min

    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 his first 5.14 within just a few…

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  • Mary Catherine Eden: The Importance of Being Bored

    August 3, 2025 · 49 min

    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. She didn't discover rock climbing until…

  • Dawn Hollis: Flipping the Script on Mountain Relationships

    May 12, 2025 · 47 min

    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 landscapes came at age nine on a family trip to…

  • Kai Lightner: The Last Six Years

    April 15, 2025 · 47 min

    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 first national title, and the wins just…

  • Babsi Zangerl on Learning, Growing and Flashing El Cap

    April 5, 2025 · 43 min

    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, taking just one fall during their…

  • Rick Accomazzo: Tobin, The Stonemasters, and Me

    January 16, 2025 · 1 hr 2 min

    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 Stonemaster, you had to send a 5.11 called…

  • Other Everests: Hidden Histories & Contemporary Challenges

    December 2, 2024 · 1 hr 5 min

    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 group of writers is shedding light on…

  • Climbing Isn't Everything: Beth Rodden

    November 1, 2024 · 45 min

    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 to move forward after she and her…

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Since 2002 Alpinist has striven to push creative boundaries with everything we do, from award-winning climbing journalism and creative writing to photography and art. Now, with the Alpinist podcast, we aim to extend our conversations with climbers and community members into interviews and oral histories that will entertain and educate our listeners with everything from dramatic and humorous adventure tales to in-depth discussions of the most significant issues in the climbing world today. More at alpinist.com/podcast