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Vitaliy and Goliath
Season 8 Episode 4
In 2021, Vitaliy Musiyenko closed the chapter on a years-long obsession with a 32-mile-ridge line featuring 60 summits in the heart of the Sierra. The Goliath Traverse is likely the longest ridge tra…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Michaela Kiersch: The Path To Dreamtime
Season 8 Episode 3
In 2024, Michaela Kiersch became the first woman to climb both V15 and 5.15 putting her on climbing’s global radar. To midwest climbers and those in the know, she was already a legend for her incredi…
Published on 5 months ago
Ups and Downs: Cody Townsend
Season 8 Episode 2
After rising to the highest echelon of professional skiing, Cody Townsend took a step back and embraced climbing to take him to the next chapter of his career. Today, Cody sits on the cusp of complet…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Janja Garnbret: The Lioness
Season 8 Episode 1
We are back with the Greatest of All Time – Janja Garnbret. For the last decade, Janja has dominated competitive climbing, capping it off with her second gold medal at the Olympics last summer. Where…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Ben Mayforth: Growth Mindset
Season 7 Episode 26
Ben Mayforth’s strength is a sight to behold. The professional paraclimber’s social clips of campusing double digit boulder problems may have made it into your social feed, but his story runs much de…
Published on 11 months ago
The Devil's Climb
Season 7 Episode 25
Last summer, Alex and Tommy Caldwell rode bikes from Estes Park, Colorado to SE Alaska where they boarded a sailboat which dropped them beneath the fabled Devil’s Thumb. Their adventure is now a film…
Published on 11 months, 1 week ago
Saving Cochamó
Season 7 Episode 24
Tucked away in a corner of Chilean Patagonia, Valle Cochamó wasn’t going to stay hidden forever. The soaring unclimbed granite walls instilled dreams of first ascents in climbers. Industrialists eyed…
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Jamie Logan: Going The Distance
Season 7 Episode 23
5.13 at 78. That’s staggering, but the numbers don’t capture the breadth of Jamie Logan’s climbing career, which now spans seven decades. Through every chapter of our sport, Jamie has been a contribu…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Cory Richards: The Unquiet Mind
Season 7 Episode 22
Alpinist and photographer Cory Richards was living at full speed. A steady stream of Himalayan expeditions and assignments from National Geographic kept him relentlessly moving around the world. Mean…
Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago
Lynn Hill: A Magician Needs A Stage
Season 7 Episode 21
El Cap. Free. In a day. Putting those words on your resume puts you in the league of legends. How did that become the bar? Lynn Hill. A singular athlete who stepped up to the biggest stage in climbin…
Published on 1 year ago