• E171: Eliot Stephens - A chat about development, tactics and guidebook writing with one of Wales' finest
    Oct 22 2025

    We reckon we've asked Eliot onto this podcast about 6 times since we started, clearly we aren't very good at taking the hint but hey, persistence won the day in the end. Eliot is quite a quiet voice on the British scene but he has been one of the most prolific first ascensionists and has repeated many hard classics at home and abroad. It was fun to finally sit down and have a chat with the elusive Welshman!

    If you enjoy Eliot's dulcet tones then check out his own podcast called 'Stoneline'.

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    2 hrs and 28 mins
  • E170: Will it be the red pill or the blue pill for Aidan?
    Oct 15 2025

    We're playing a game! Choices choices for Aidan and Sam is playing an incredibly convincing Morpheos, offering Aidan a selection of choices, all Aidan must do is choose!

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • E169: Mina Leslie-Wujastyk - Eat to climb, hard climbing post-motherhood and the fun vs achievement spectrum
    Oct 8 2025

    Mina is back on the podcast after quite some time! Since last time Mina has written a book all about nutrition for climbing! So we have a pretty long ramble about parenthood, whether you can maximise fun and achievement simultaneous and y'know general fear of death... All the fun stuff! I think we finally got to talking about the book after about an hour if you want to skip to that!

    https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Eat-to-Climb-by-Mina-Leslie-Wujastyk/9781839812729

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    2 hrs and 32 mins
  • E168: Aidan's plans, Trance and hypotheticals
    Oct 1 2025

    Home team episode, we sort of forgot it was recorded at times so gets a bit rambly but we did cover a few big topics, how do you pronounce Nike? How would Jerry cope with the Ace being campused by a chap in a protective boot? As well as some hypotheticals and life updates. Very much a recorded chat really.

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    1 hr and 41 mins
  • E167: Stefano Ghisolfi - Transitioning into a boulder bro, hold fabrication and the collaborative future for elite sport climbing
    Sep 24 2025

    Stefano, one of the world's best sport climbers has rapidly been becoming one of the world's best boulderers so we thought now was the perfect time to get him on our podcast! We chatted about a bunch of things, his processes with Excalibur, Silence and Burden of Dreams, the situation with hold fabrication in sport climbing, how the future of sport climbing rests in collaboration and his bouldering journey.

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    2 hrs and 5 mins
  • E166: Adam Shahar - The Process, Burden, boards and World Cups
    Sep 17 2025

    Joining us this week is one of the last (if not the last) board climbing specialist still on the world cup circuit! Adam is one of the strongest people around on a board and he's really started to show what he can do on rock, but he's fighting the siren call of the stone for a little longer because he's still competing internationally. We talk about his trip to Magic Wood, his four hour riverbed sesh with his parents, his slightly palm sweaty time climbing the Process in Bishop and many things competition as well.

    If you'd like to see a chapter list there is an AI generated and highly inaccurate one below (or at least there is on Spotify) I wouldn't trust it to be honest.

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    1 hr and 48 mins
  • E165: 'Barefoot' Charles Albert - Footprints down the paths least travelled
    Sep 10 2025

    Charles definitely provides a different flavour for this week's episode. A man who truly goes his own way, he climbs without shoes, mostly without any gear and usually without crash pads. He climbs, he downclimbs, he jumps and sometimes lives a cave. On top of all these brilliant eccentricities he's also one of the strongest climbers in the world. Naturally we had a lot of questions for him and we really loved his completely novel take on the sport. Hope you enjoy!

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    1 hr and 32 mins
  • E164: Zoe Wood and Ros Beveridge - Route setting pod Mk 2, this time with different perspectives!
    Sep 3 2025

    The other side of the coin from episode 150, it's another route setting deep dive pod, but this time with renowned setters Zoe and Ros, who were able to offer some different perspectives that four dudes can produce by themselves, who knew right?

    Just a bunch of chats about route setting, some of it is specific to women in route setting and some of it is just general route setting rambling.

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    2 hrs and 11 mins