Alpinist

"We need to acknowledge mountaineering as a profoundly social pursuit…. I strongly resist the idea that there is a kind of objective kind of excellence in mountaineering. The road to mountaineering ac...

21 Marras 201940min

In this episode, Alpinist Digital Editor Derek Franz interviews Jeff Achey, a prolific first ascensionist and author who lives in Western Colorado, where he co-owns Wolverine Publishing with his wife ...

21 Loka 201934min

"Perspective is a curious lens," climber and forest ranger Robbi Mecus says. "If I never turn my gaze to the side, my interpretation of the world becomes static, unempathetic. Changing my vantage poin...

25 Syys 201926min

"Mountains have always been the sharpest mirrors for me: they've simplified, purified and clarified my life, and have reliably shown me the better side of myself," Geoff Powter writes in his new book,...

9 Syys 201938min

Climber, father and house painter Chris Kalous launched the climbing podcast The Enormocast in 2011. In this episode, Alpinist Digital Editor Derek Franz sits down with Kalous, a longtime friend, to r...

4 Maalis 201940min

In 1969, at the age of nine, Barry Blanchard sat on a Greyhound bus as a young woman read to him from the pages of the mountaineering classic, The White Spider. Five decades later, alpinist and mounta...

1 Maalis 201942min

"How often do we, as climbers, reach out for abandonment?" Claire Carter asks. "Leave the ground to find a swinging freedom; bitter-cold, bittersweet." In this episode, we sit down with poet, climber ...

1 Maalis 201937min

In 1972, barely out of high school, Doug McCarty and Brian Leo completed the first winter ascent of the North Face of 12,799-foot Granite Peak—only to endure an icy bivy on the remote summit. In this ...

24 Tammi 201950min