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Cheat Code: Tanner Wanish and Michael Vaill
Season 9 Episode 14
Michael Vaill and Tanner Wanish found the cheat code to adventure climbing – each other. Since they linked up on Mountain Project, it’s looked like t…
10 hours ago
Pete Whittaker: Beyond Wide
Season 9 Episode 13
Pete Whittaker may have captured climbing’s hearts through his and fellow Wide Boy Tom Randall’s quest to complete the hardest offwidth on the planet…
2 weeks ago
Wide Ponies and Offwidths
Season 9 Episode 12
Offwidths – for most climbers they are a necessary evil, but for a fringe fraction, hard, often inverted offwidth climbing is the main attraction. We…
4 weeks ago
Will Moss: Happy Little Accident
Season 9 Episode 11
Last year, Will Moss became the first person to onsight El Cap in a day. It might not have happened though if the food and coconut water in his haul …
1 month, 1 week ago
Jon Krakauer: The Mountain's Shadow
Season 9 Episode 10
Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air chronicled the 1996 Everest disaster and launched a generation of interest in climbing and the natural world, but for Jo…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Getting It Right: Charlize Theron and Beth Rodden
Season 9 Episode 9
Will Hollywood ever get climbing right? Or at least passable? When Academy Award winner Charlize Theron went to work making her latest film Apex, the…
2 months, 1 week ago
Connor Herson: Just Getting Started
Season 9 Episode 8
Connor Herson couldn’t legally drive when he freed the Nose in 2018, competently navigating up his way up a route only Lynn Hill and Tommy Caldwell h…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Going Pro: Lincoln Knowles and Zander Waller
Season 9 Episode 7
The path to professionalism is murky at best. Even for established world-class athletes, it’s a struggle to make it work. Two friends chart very diff…
3 months, 1 week ago
Sean Bailey: Duality Of Man
Season 9 Episode 6
Sean Bailey flies beneath the radar and he wants you to know he’s cool with that. Most of the time. After retiring from a decorated comp career, Sean…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Nasim Eshqi: The Fighter
Season 9 Episode 5
When protests erupted in Iran in fall of 2022, human rights activist and professional climber Nasim Eshqi was climbing in France. As she watched the …
4 months ago