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Forerunner
Season 2 Episode 5
Right now, the spotlight shines brightly on the newest generation of competition climbers, but the path they’re following was blazed by those before …
4 years, 6 months ago
Inadmissible
Season 2
Armando Menocal worked to save climbing in America and helped kickstart it in Cuba. While developing the international climbing destination of Viñale…
4 years, 7 months ago
Olympics Recap
Season 2 Episode 4
After four days of alpine starts to watch climbing at the Olympics, Alex and Fitz catch up with producers John Burgman and Leici Hendrix for a laugh-…
4 years, 7 months ago
Space Race
Season 2 Episode 3
In 2019, The US Olympic Committee gave USA Climbing a one in 10,000 chance of winning a medal. Two years later, USA Climbing sent four climbers to To…
4 years, 7 months ago
Try Harder
Season 2 Episode 2
When it comes to the Olympics, we will probably never see a climbing competitor like Kyra Condie again. While other competitors in Tokyo have had the…
4 years, 7 months ago
Olympics Viewing Guide
Season 2
Alex and producer John Burgman walk us through the upcoming competition, make their picks for the gold and explain why the world’s best climber is pr…
4 years, 7 months ago
You're Too X-Treme For Me
Season 2 Episode 1
The decades long courtship between the Olympics and climbing reads like some bizarro script for a rom com. It seemed like a sure fire thing until cur…
4 years, 7 months ago
Room For Growth
Season 1 Episode 10
Is climbing defined by adventure or athleticism? How does a sport grow and evolve? Alex and Fitz discuss these questions and other nuggets as they re…
4 years, 8 months ago
Untelling The Story
Season 1 Episode 9
Ship Rock. The Totem Pole. Spider Rock. Just because it’s there doesn’t mean we should climb it. We dive into the troubled relationship between climb…
4 years, 9 months ago
Fricking Stanley
Season 1
Sean “Stanley” Leary never got a lot of media attention, but he was a driving force in the progression of the sport and beloved by the climbing commu…
4 years, 9 months ago