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 accidents, hearing from SAR professionals, and exploring the biggest cultural ideas in climbing with some of climbing's top athletes.

American Alpine Club Podcast is a sports podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 91 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts American Alpine Club Podcast, a sports show with 91 episodes published.

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  Geoff Powter: Searching for the Voice of Canadian Climbing

  Aug 7, 202655 min

  Geoff Powter is this year’s winner of the H. Adams Carter Literary Award, and it’s clear why—mountain literature is the key to his heart. In this episode, we talk with Geoff about his prolific writing career, his search for the distinct Canadian climbing voice, and starting the magazine Polar Circus in order to find a home for it. We cover his earliest discoveries of climbing through mountain stories, and his thirteen years editing the Canadian Alpine Journal, as well as 27 years leading the "Voices of Adventure" interview series at the Banff Mountain Book Festival. Geoff sketches how these formative storytelling experiences have led him to writing several books, including his recent biography of Jim Donini, called "Survival Is Not Assured." We explore the philosophical and psychological heartbeat of climbing stories, and dive into how climbing literature evolved from a tone that was all seriousness and sacredness to embracing profanity and grit. Dive in to hear from one of the most formative voices in mountain literature today. You can hear more from Geoff, and the other awardees, at the AAC’s Annual Gala. Grab your tickets now at americanalpineclub.org/gala

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  New Ways of Thinking Through Climbing Accidents

  Jul 24, 20261h 9m

  This year, the AAC’s Accidents Editor Pete Takeda received a 30% increase in climbing related accident reports. In this, our annual Accident Trends episode, we look at the patterns of climbing accidents that happened in 2025, and discuss what these patterns reveal, and what all climbers can learn from them. From the human factors that influence accidents across disciplines, the emerging prevalence of toprope soloing accidents; the underappreciated danger of getting your knee stuck in an inversion offwidth; or the hidden dangers of a stick clip, to the continued high incidence of lowering accidents, we dive into some of the biggest trends and most poignant examples of accidents to learn from in this year's book, Accidents in North American Climbing 2026. *** If you’re a Partner level member or above, and opted in to receive Accidents, you’ll be getting your copy in the mail in the next month or two! If you aren’t a member yet, now is the time to take action, so you can get your copy, and dive into the details and learnings captured yearly in ANAC.

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  All About Bolts: From Federal Policy, to A Day of Local Rebolting With Ryan Kuehn

  Jul 10, 20261h 23m

  This episode is all about bolts. From the nitty gritty of yanking a bad bolt out of the rock at your local sport crag, to the big-picture policies that govern the practice of bolting and rebolting on America’s federal public lands. For the main part of this episode, we talk about the under-appreciated art of bolt replacement with Ryan Kuehn, one of the leads for the Anchor Replacement Program at the Boulder Climbing Community (BCC), an integral local climbing org for the Front Range of Colorado. We also start the episode with insights from the AAC’s Director of Government Affairs, Byron Harvison, who shares an update on the proposed implementation guidance of the EXPLORE ACT and PARC Act—the historic laws that preserved fixed anchors as appropriate in Wilderness Areas. Bryon explains how the proposed implementation policy, just released and open to public comment, will impact how climbers and LCO’s will place and maintain bolts and other fixed anchors on federal public lands moving forward. Dive in to get the full picture: from federal policy to a day of local rebolting.

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  Sasha DiGiulian: Slinging Cacti, 8b Big Walls, and Recognizing Your Spot in Climbing History

  Jun 29, 202646 min

  Sasha DiGiulian has done major ascents on big walls from Madagascar to Brazil to El Cap. She has told the story of these ascents in the American Alpine Journal—and now in the all new American Climbing Journal. With this unique perspective as a contributor to these journals of record, we asked her to weigh in on her history with the AAJ and ACJ, and why documenting climbing’s evolution matters. We touch on her recent ascent of Platinum Wall, a long 5.13d/8b El Cap climb, (full story on the Cutting Edge Podcast), dive into the overgrown, run-out, cactus-filled pitches of Bravo Les Filles (8b) in Madagascar, discuss what "significant" means in climbing these days, and the art of recognizing your place in climbing history. *** Inspired by Sasha’s bold, run-out questing on Bravo Les Filles? Join the Club or renew at any membership level in June, or donate $30 or more, and you can get our limited edition June tee—just use promo code QUEST. One day left! Because no climbing quest is complete without the AAC.

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  Belaytionship Therapy: Tools for Better Climbing Relationships

  Jun 12, 20261h 23m

  What can you do if you and your romantic partner constantly bicker at the crag? How do you speak up if your climbing partner has a totally different risk tolerance than you, and you keep getting in way over your head on climbs because of that mismatch? What if one of your climbing partners dropped you, and you can’t quite trust them again? How do you move forward if you’ve witnessed an accident, and nobody seems to be understanding how the trauma continues to live in your mind and body? We sit down with Dr. Jennifer Dragonette, a Licensed Psychologist, trauma specialist, and Certified Single Pitch Instructor who is a clinical provider for the AAC’s Climbing Grief Fund Directory, to explore these questions through case studies of belaytionships you might find familiar. Dr. Dragonette leverages her expertise in couples therapy and DBT to illustrate where communication and therapeutic tools can help build stronger climbing partnerships and solve friction. If you’ve ever found yourself in need of a little belaytionship therapy, this epsiode is the place to start!

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