Podcast Episodes

Flying Deep

There comes a stage in a great athlete's career when the pursuit of the technical difficulty take a backseat. It gives way to simplicity, an aestheti…

11 years, 2 months ago

The Journey Within

"I'm thirty-year-old, and a complete and utter failure," writes Chris Kalman. "My mom is a PhD astrophysicist, my dad, a PhD mathematician, and my si…

11 years, 3 months ago

More Than Just a Camping Trip

"Death-by-lightning-strike statistics kept swirling through my head, causing me to push my 13-year-old daughter to the very limits of her physical ab…

11 years, 3 months ago

What You're Handed

Regardless of how you choose to play outside, if someone gets hurt in the mountains, the first step on the checklist remains the same: "scene safety"…

11 years, 4 months ago

Tales of Terror Vol. 5

Ghost stories. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, ghost stories have a way of seeping into your mind. And, if they're really good, suddenly, that …

11 years, 4 months ago

The Shorts--Hooch

"It's never encouraging to be awoken in a tent by headlights. I wanted to play possum--roll over, and pretend to sleep until they left," writes David…

11 years, 5 months ago

The Shorts--5 Steps to Bailing

"The reality of climbing is, if you climb long enough, you're bound to bail," writes Dean Fleming. "I've left rappel biners on sport bolted 5.8s. I'v…

11 years, 5 months ago

The Shorts--Go For It!

"Encouragement. Peer Pressure. Bullying. Call it what you like," writes Tom Ireson, "but the climbing community is full of it."

We rely on our friends…

11 years, 6 months ago

Mothers Have it Hardest

"I remember really quickly going from, 'Wow, I'm home, this feels great', to 'Holy s***, what did I do to my mom'?" says alpinist Kyle Dempster. "And…

11 years, 7 months ago

The Shorts--The Drowning Machine

"I was disoriented beneath the cold water. I kicked toward the surface, but the force of the water held me down. I twisted and hung underwater for a …

11 years, 8 months ago