Episodes 74
Avg. Duration 39m
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Apple Rating 4.5 (171)
Since Aug 2017
Latest Episode May 2026

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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

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S25E3 Kelsey Gray - A World of Routes

May 12, 2026 40m

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…

S25E2 Alita Contreras - Woman Warrior

May 07, 2026 47m

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,…

S25E1 Peter Mortimer & Nick Rosen - The Dark Wizard

Apr 14, 2026 29m

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…

S24E3 Will Moss - One Step Further

Aug 27, 2025 34m

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…

S24E2 Sonnie Trotter - Commitment to Climbing

Aug 13, 2025 41m

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…

S24E1 Mary Catherine Eden: The Importance of Being Bored

Aug 03, 2025 48m

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.…

S23E3 Dawn Hollis: Flipping the Script on Mountain Relationships

May 12, 2025 47m

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…

S23E2 Kai Lightner: The Last Six Years

Apr 15, 2025 47m

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…

S23E1 Babsi Zangerl on Learning, Growing and Flashing El Cap

Apr 05, 2025 43m

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,…

S22E3 Rick Accomazzo: Tobin, The Stonemasters, and Me

Jan 16, 2025 1h 1m

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…

S22E2 Other Everests: Hidden Histories & Contemporary Challenges

Dec 02, 2024 1h 5m

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,…

S22E1 Climbing Isn't Everything: Beth Rodden

Nov 01, 2024 45m

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…

S21E3 Graham Zimmerman's Balancing Act

Feb 28, 2024 44m

For all of his expeditions and cutting-edge climbs around the world, Graham Zimmerman's story is one of balancing adventure and exploration with social responsibility and an examined life. His book,…

S21E2 The Many Facets of Len Necefer

Feb 20, 2024 52m

Dr. Len Necefer didn't grow up skiing steep slopes or topping out on summits like he does today. Instead, his connection to the outdoors began with golf—a fact he shares rather sheepishly. Necefer…

S21E1 Climbing and Journalism with Lauren DeLaunay Miller

Feb 12, 2024 43m

Lauren Delaunay Miller is an award-winning author, journalist and audio producer based in Bishop, California. Her first book, Valley of Giants: Stories from Women at the Heart of Yosemite Climbing,…

S20E3 Training for the New Anything with Steve House

Dec 15, 2023 54m

Steve House began venturing into the high mountains as a teenager, and has since built a career on climbing, guiding and coaching. By the time he published his book Beyond the Mountain in 2009,…

S20E2 Unpacking Packing with Sarah Pickman

Dec 06, 2023 41m

Sarah Pickman is an encyclopedia of expedition history, in particular the gear early explorers relied on. She recently earned a PhD in history from Yale University. She's an independent scholar,…

S20E1 Writing and Routes with David Smart

Nov 29, 2023 34m

David Smart's life and work seem to intersect with climbing at every turn. He's a lifelong climber, revered route developer and the editorial director at Gripped Publishing. He's a founding editor at…

S19E3 Racing Fear with Justin Bowen

Sep 06, 2023 32m

Justin Bowen's first time scaling walls and new routes was in a climbing gym during a friend's birthday party. It wasn't until high school, driven by persistent memories of that experience, that…

S19E2 Aiming for the Bushes with Alan Rousseau

Aug 30, 2023 31m

For Alan Rousseau, the allure of mountaineering is in the unknown. When he looks up at a mountain and contemplates whether it can be climbed, he sees a mystery to be solved. Rousseau is an IFMGA…

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