Podcasts by All Things Climbing

Erik Murdock and Tommy Caldwell on the Natural Resources Management Act from 2019-02-24T16:42:53

We talk to Tommy Caldwell and Access Fund Policy Director, Erik Murdock, to discuss a massive public lands bill that’s moving through con...

Climbers' Environmental Impact with Author J.B. MacKinnon from 2018-12-03T20:33:31

What’s the biggest environmental impact we have as climbers? It’s easy to be distracted by the obvious stuff: chalk marks, cat holes, bolts. But, as journalist J.B. MacKinnon points out, the rea...

Making Homemade Cams: Erick Davidson of Merlin Rock Gear from 2018-11-19T20:54:33

Erick Davidson makes the best cams that you’ve never heard of — they aren’t sold in stores or online, and Davidson’s company, Merlin Rock Gear, doesn’t even have a website.

Phil Powers and Alex Honnold on a Permit System for The Nose? from 2018-10-29T18:15:18

Are we headed for a future where The Nose (or other well-traveled walls) are headed for a permit system? We started debating this “what if” scenario almost a year ago, prompted by a conversation...

What's it like to climb The Nose? from 2018-10-08T19:26:37

A couple weeks ago, our host Dave Alie and his wife Katie set off to Yosemite with the goal of climbing The Nose, often called The Greatest Rock Climb on Earth.

It has a reputation as bein...

Rhino Skin Solutions founder, Justin Brown from 2018-09-17T21:25:18

Justin Brown is a Bend, Oregon local who spends much of his free time climbing around the country and volunteering as a board member of the Smith Rock Group. Between campfires and trail-building...

Matt Pincus of TrainingBeta from 2018-09-03T23:07:08

Matt Pincus is a climber’s climber, deeply committed to the sport and the community. He’s also the content manager and head coach / trainer at TrainingBeta, and a Blister alumn. Suffice it to sa...

Alex Honnold & Maury Birdwell on the Honnold Foundation and filming Free Solo from 2018-08-13T16:52:24

Alex Honnold “The Climber” needs absolutely no introduction. He is one of the most talented climbers of his generation, and he is without question the greatest free soloist of all time. And yet,...

Bolt Restrictions, Hardware Committees, & Threatened Access, Oh My! from 2018-08-06T16:51:33

As the number of people that are climbing outside continues to explode, there is increasing pressure on land managers and advocacy groups. This often leads either to “active management” (e.g., r...

Nik Berry: Trad Climbing's Cutting Edge from 2018-06-25T22:27:40

Nik Berry has propelled himself onto the national climbing scene with a seemingly unending series of hard sends on long ro...

Bouldering Legend John "Verm" Sherman from 2018-06-06T16:55

Prior to John Sherman’s arrival on the climbing scene back in the time of the Stonemasters, bouldering wasn’t really taken seriously. There was no meaningful, open-ended grading system to compar...

American Alpine Club CEO, Phil Powers from 2018-05-21T21:10:55

The American Alpine Club is one of the oldest climbing institutions in the US. Yet despite its deep past, the AAC takes a forward-looking approach to improving the climbing experience for all on...

Tension Climbing’s Will Anglin & Ben Spannuth, Part 2 from 2018-05-07T22:03:33

Will Anglin and Ben Spannuth, founders of Tension Climbing, are two of climbing’s most dedicated technicians. Not only have they spent years studying the physiological components of “training,” ...

Tension Climbing’s Will Anglin & Ben Spannuth, Part 1 from 2018-04-30T21:14:57

Will Anglin and Ben Spannuth have spent a lot of time thinking about how climbing works — why this foot and not that one? What precisely makes this move hard? They are extremely accompl...

Reviewing Portraits of Climbing Legends in "The Climbers" from 2018-04-05T20:01:44

Photographer Jim Herrington's new photo book "The Climbers" is an undeniably compelling portrait collection of many of the most influential climbers of the 20th century, including Fred Beckey, Y...

A Close Look at "Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey" from 2018-03-23T00:56:26

If you’ve climbed in the mountains of North America, there’s a good chance you’ve climbed one of Fred Beckey’s routes. Beckey, known for his tremendous number of classic first ascents and his ec...

Fixing Dangerous Bolts: Greg Barnes and the ASCA from 2018-03-07T03:43:12

How safe are the bolts we encounter in the wild? Can we really trust them? Who maintains them? And what makes a bolt fail, anyway? Greg Barnes, the Director of the American Safe Climbing Associa...

Jonathan Siegrist, Part 2 from 2018-02-21T20:27:48

This week we’re picking up where we left off with Jonathan Siegrist, who’s been at the top of American rock climbing for over a decade. Over that time, he has watched the sport change and grow d...

Jonathan Siegrist, Part I from 2018-02-12T23:23:26

This is the first half of our conversation with professional rock climber Jonathan Siegrist. Jonathan is one of America's most psyched climbers. After years spent climbing full time, he has an i...

Major Trends in Climbing Shoes from 2018-02-03T17:19:56

Dave and Luke Alie headed to Outdoor Retailer's first trade show in Denver to get the details on the biggest news in and updates to rock shoes for 2018. We talk to Black Diamond product designer...

Barbara Zangerl from 2018-01-24T17:26:13

We talk to Barbara Zangerl about her recent send of Magic Mushroom on El Cap with Jacopo Larcher — the first repeat of the route since...

Hazel Findlay (Ep.1) from 2018-01-17T03:58:07

UK-based climber Hazel Findlay kicks off the show with a conversation about her recent (and impressive) send of the Salathe wall on El Cap, managing the demands of being filmed/photographed on the ...

Introducing: All Things Climbing from 2017-12-19T17:31:49

My name is Dave Alie, I'm the climbing editor at Blister, and I'm here to let you know that we are launching a new weekly podcast called "All Things Climbing."

Many of us were drawn to cli...