American Alpine Club Podcast
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American Alpine Club Podcast
The American Alpine Club Podcast is your guide to the climbing community. We're not your typical training podcast. Instead, we're covering the advocacy issues facing climbers, diving into forgotten and niche stories from climbing history, discovering undercover crushers, analyzing trends in climbing...
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22 Seasons at Denali Base Camp, with Lisa Roderick
On this episode of the podcast, we chat with Lisa Roderick about her book: A Place Among Giants: 22 Seasons at Denali Base camp. As base camp manager...
Flashback to the Era of AAC Member Applications
In this episode of the podcast, we sit down with AAC Librarian Natalie Siciliano to chat about a fascinating part of the American Alpine Club’s histor...
Softening to Grief, with Therapist Ash Langholz
CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes topics of death and loss in the mountains, as well as mention of some specific accidents you may or may not be...
Periodizing Mental Training with Neal Palles
The AAC’s Climbing Grief Fund has a directory of therapists who are specialists in the unique risks, challenges, joys, and euphoria of outdoor recreat...
Outdoor Alliance: Roping Up for Recreation Advocacy
In this episode of the podcast, we are celebrating the recipient of the AAC’s 2025 David Brower Conservation Award: Outdoor Alliance. Outdoor Alliance...
Suffer Well: A Climbing (and Life) Philosophy, with Kelly Cordes
Every year, the AAC bestows awards to climbing changemakers and celebrates their accomplishments at the AAC Gala. We’ll be announcing those award winn...
2025 Climbing Accidents Trends: What the Data Tells Us
It’s that time of year again–the AAC has invited the editor of Accidents in North American Climbing, Pete Takeda, to hop on the pod to chat about emer...
Hand Holds: The Many Cruxes of Parenting and Climbing
In this episode we have Allyson Gunsallus on the podcast to talk about an under-discussed part of the climbing community—the joys and struggles of par...
Drowning at Altitude: A Nepal Rescue Story
In this episode, we talk to AAC member, alpinist, and ski mountaineer Maddie Miller about a Nepal trip gone wrong. What she hoped was going to be a le...
Thirty Below: The Forgotten Story of the Denali Damsels
In this episode of the AAC podcast, we have adventure writer Cassidy Randall on to talk about her new book, "Thirty Below." Thirty Below is the grippi...
CLIMB: Kai Lightner, BTS of Death of Villains
In this episode, we sit down with Kai Lightner to chat about his Reel Rock film, Death of Villains. Kai gives us a behind the scenes look at how the f...
CONNECT: Remembering Charlie Through an Epic on Mt. Whitney
In this episode, we’re sitting down with AAC member David Corvi to talk about his Live Your Dream grant experience—a beautiful day that turned into a...
EDUCATE: Climbing Gear Innovations, Then and Now
This episode is for the gear nerds out there. The climbing world loves to reminisce on some of climbing’s great inventions of the past, but what’s hap...
CLIMB: Behind the Scenes of the Cutting Edge Grant, with Jack Tackle
In this episode, we sit down with legend Jack Tackle to discuss all things cutting edge. We begin by diving into the many first ascents of Jack’s own...
CONNECT: The Next Generation of Crag Developers
The mentorship gap is a frequent topic of discussion in a lot of climbing circles, and the gap seems to be especially pronounced for climbers trying t...
EDUCATE: The Forgotten Stonemaster
We are so excited to have longtime AAC member Rick Accomazzo on the podcast to chat about his new book “Tobin, the Stonemasters, and Me, 1970-1980.” T...
CONNECT: Undercover Crusher Connie Shang
On this episode of the Undercover Crusher series, we have Connie Shang on the podcast to talk about her recent send of Spyfiction, a 5.14c in Mt. Char...
CONNECT: Undercover Crusher Nathan Hadley
On this edition of the Undercover Crusher series, we have Rab athlete Nathan Hadley on the pod. We talk about what counts as “undercover,” and the rea...
CONNECT: Summiting Denali, Living the Dream
In this episode, we had Live Your Dream grant recipient John Thomson on the pod to tell us all about his trip to Denali! Our Live Your Dream grant is...
PROTECT: Amity Warme and a YOSAR Climbing Ranger Weigh In on The Yosemite Credo
Its another Yosemite episode! And with some of the most in-the-know climbers, pro Amity Warme and Climbing Ranger Jesse McGahey, who weigh in on what...
Educate: Search and Rescue Helicopter Evacuation in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison
This year, the featured winner of the Rocky Talkie Search and Rescue Award is the Black Canyon Search and Rescue team, who performed an incredibly tec...
PROTECT: First Ascents, Ground Falls, and the AAC Rescue Benefit in Action
In this episode, we sit down with Jarod, a long-time AAC member, to discuss a crazy accident he had at his home crag in Missouri, and how he utilized...
EDUCATE: The Climbing World's Best Books about Accidents and the Cutting Edge
This year’s editions of Accidents in North American Climbing and American Alpine Journal are off to the printer! We had Dougald MacDonald and Pete Tak...
EDUCATE: The Untold Stories of Sherpas, Baltis, and other Local Climbers in the Greater Ranges
In this episode, we cover the untold and complex experience of local climbers in the Greater Ranges—how Sherpa, Baltis, and other local climbers have...
CONNECT: Inside the Life of a Climbing Photographer
Note: This episode is explicit.
In this episode, we had adventure photographer Jeremiah Watt on the pod to talk about all things climbin...
CONNECT: Mo Beck on the Impact of Adaptive Climbing Fest, and Retiring from Competitions
*Adaptive Climbing Festival is a finalist for the 2024 Changemaker Award!*
Adaptive Climbing Festival (ACF) is crafting a shift in adapti...
CLIMB: Katie Lamb Dives Deep on Her Send of "Box Therapy" and Losing Anonymity
*Katie Lamb's send of Box Therapy is a finalist for the AAC's Climb of the Year Award!*
In 2023, Katie Lamb sent Box Therapy. It was a de...
CLIMB: Babsi Zangerl's Secret to Her Exceptional Yosemite Resume
"I like to suck" Babsi says...and this mentality means she's constantly trying climbing styles and skills that she's bad at. And with that sense of cu...
EDUCATE: Hazel Findlay on Yosemite, Magic Line, and the Theory of Flow
We sat down with the master of climbing mindset, Hazel Findlay. Hazel has made many significant free ascents of El Cap, and is one of the very few to...
GAME DAY: Hueco Rock Rodeo
It’s about to be game on for the 28th annual Hueco Rock Rodeo, and so we had our own Game Day panel to talk shop about strategies for the competition,...
CLIMB: Kyra Condie on Winning Hueco, Fear of Falling, and Trying Harder
In this episode, we sit down with Mountain Hardwear athlete and Olympian Kyra Condie. Kyra has so much psyche and energy, and we had a wide ranging co...
Legacy Series: Tom Frost, Living and Photographing the Golden Age of Yosemite
Tom Frost was one of the leading climbers of his generation, making important first ascents on El Cap, like the North America Wall and Salathé Wall. H...
CLIMB: Tom Evans and Two Decades of Reporting on El Cap Climbing
Tom Evans is the creator of the El Cap Report. He started out taking photos of all the climbers he’d see on El Cap, and got tired of answering questio...
CONNECT: The FKT of the Rainier Infinity Loop, In Memory of A Friend
Abby Westling and Kiira Antenucci were devastated to lose their friend Luke to a climbing accident in 2022. But as they learned to cope with this trag...
EDUCATE: Everything You Didn't Know About Royal Robbins
Most climbers know the name Royal Robbins. But how much do you really know about this legendary figure in American climbing? Writer and editor David S...
CONNECT: Behind the Scenes of Climbing Mentorship, with Kimber Cross and Kit DesLauriers
Kimber Cross is an adaptive climber who uses a custom prosthetic ice tool to climb waterfall ice around the country as well as alpine ice routes in he...
PROTECT: A Yosemite Climbing Ranger Weighs in on Style, Sustainability, and Safety
In this episode, we sit down with Head Yosemite Climbing Ranger Jesse McGahey to talk about the state of Yosemite climbing. We dig into what a climbin...
CONNECT: Undercover Crusher Andrew Leich Talks Developing in West Virginia
Welcome to the first episode of our “Undercover Crushers” Series, where the AAC talks to some of the hidden gems of the climbing community—those climb...
CONNECT: Climbing Partnerships that Shape Us, with Erik Weihenmayer and Felipe Tapia Nordenflycht
In this episode, we sit down with climbing partners Erik Weihenmayer and Felipe Tapia Nordenflycht to talk about their recent expedition to Patagonia....
CLIMB: The Training Episode, with Tom Randall
On this episode of the podcast, we sat down with the infamous Tom Randall of Wide Boyz fame. Tom reflected on some of the most transformative moments...