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53 episodes
since Oct. 4, 2023
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Phil Wortmann doesn’t look at outrageous projects like most people. It can’t be that he took too many hits to the head, because he stopped boxing early, and it’s not la la optimism either. Still, for someone to make a 5.13 project on Pike’s Peak their first at the grade and to establish what is lik…

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If JC Dubeau is known it’s somewhat as a dark horse.  Search for JC online and you won’t find any trip reports or beta spraying, but as a soloist with a selfie stick he has surprisingly good photos on IG for someone who likes to keep a low profile. JC is also an older athlete who doesn’t train or p…
Enni Bertling has seen it all when it comes to climbing in Finland. When she started she was one of the few climbers in the country, then she helped form the Finnish Ice Climbing Team, and is now the Head of the Youth National Team, among other roles too numerous to list but which also includes rou…
Pedro Guerra-Zúñiga has a fighting spirit — a spirit that especially likes to laugh.  Growing up, Pedro expected to get cancer, at some point, probably in his 60s. Fate has a funny disposition, though, so when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Pedro decided to respond on his terms: with h…
Roger Strong made his catch king crab fishing so he could ski and climb the rest of the year. His life was forged by sea and steel, commercial fishing hardening him for both alpinism and captainship. As he says, it was some of the best and worst times. But to continue the metaphor, the metallurgy o…
Does drytooling have a grading problem? Katie McKinstry Stylos is one of top drytoolers in the world, specializing in big roofs. In 2023, Katie sent A Line Above The Sky, becoming the fourth woman to climb D15. This past summer, she returned to project Parallel World (D16/D15+/other?), and she has …
In Matthias Scherer’s words, Norway provides the true character of ice climbing. That is to say, you can always find adventure, from single pitch up to vertical kilometer ice flows. Outside of popular destinations like Rjukan and Hemsedal, you will rarely find a line that has been picked out. Depen…
According to the American Alpine Club’s 2019 State of Climbing report, only 1% of surveyed climbers identified as Black. Jordan Revis is trying to change that. This past winter, Jordan helped lead the first-ever Black Intro to Ice Climbing workshop at the Mount Washington Valley Ice Fest and he is …
Who Do You Want to Be? On the surface, it’s a simple question, but getting to the core is often a devious stumbling through masquerade — “Is this really what I want to be doing?”, “Is this me or who I used to be?”, “What’s next?” Marcus Garcia is turning 50 this year and he’s lived a lot of lives i…
This episode is part of the Meet the Maker series where we highlight an entrepreneur who is making specialty gear for ice climbers. If you’ve ever wanted to hear the story behind some of your favorite – and soon to be favorite – products, that’s what today’s conversation is about. We’re doing this …
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