Jeff Smoot on John Bachar, Peter Croft, and the Shift in Climbing in the '80s
Check out our new book, Written In Stone: The 1990s! Because this season is focused on the 1980s, and we are talking about the two best free soloists of their generations, Peter Croft and John Bachar,...
12 Mar 202557min
Alex Honnold on Peter Croft, John Bachar, Free-Soloing, and Climbing Big Yosemite Linkups
Check out our new book, Written In Stone: The 1990s! Does Alex Honnold need an introduction? No, of course he doesn’t. But he was particularly suited for this conversation about Bachar and Croft for s...
10 Mar 202552min
John Bachar Chooses Peter Croft For a New Game
Check out our new book, Written In Stone: The 1990s! It was 1986, over halfway through a decade that had brought turbulent change to climbing, and it was clear to John Bachar that even in Yosemite - h...
3 Mar 202547min
Andrea Hah on Punks in the Gym, Arapiles, and Confidence
Check out our new book, Written In Stone: The 1990s! Shortly after my own trip to the Grampians and Araps, where I played briefly on Punks in the Gym, just to give it, as Ben Cossey would say, a tummy...
26 Feb 202544min
Jesse Guthrie on Wolfgang Güllich, Kurt Albert, and Climbing in the '80s
Check out our new book, Written In Stone: The 1990s! As I was researching Wolfgang, I would regularly come across candid photos taken inside the house he shared with Kurt Albert, and of course I read ...
24 Feb 20251h 1min
Hannes Huch on Community in the Frankenjura, Wolfgang Güllich, and Kurt Albert
Check out our new book, Written In Stone: The 1990s! Because the history of the Frankenjura can’t be told without Kurt Albert and Wolfgang Güllich, both of whom we lost too soon, I wanted to talk to s...
19 Feb 20251h 3min
Ben Cossey on Wolfgang Güllich, Punks in the Gym, and Lightweight Baby
Check out our new book, Written In Stone: The 1990s! There’s really no debate. In the pantheon of Wolfgang Güllich frothers, there is no person who is as much a frother as Australian superstar Ben Cos...
17 Feb 20251h 8min
Wolfgang Güllich is a Punk in the Gym
Check out our new book, Written In Stone: The 1990s! From the early to mid-1980s, Wolfgang Güllich was steadily discovering his own power. Spurred on by American and British climbers coming to the Fra...
10 Feb 202546min
