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When climbing was a fringe sport, the epic tales of achievement were told around the campfire. As the sport continues to grow, Alex Honnold and co-host Fitz Cahall grab the mic to share stories from the people who define climbing by pushing the boundaries and challenging the status quo of the previous generation.
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Jim Morrison: Live from Outside Days
Last year, Jim Morrison (https://www.instagram.com/jimwmorrison/?hl=en) became the first person to climb and ski off the north side of Everest. The multi-year odyssey brought him through valleys of grief and peaks of joy. The new film Evere
Christina Koch: The Astronaut Climber
Christina Koch (https://www.instagram.com/astro_christina/) made history when she became the first woman to travel around the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis II mission. Her path to space began with climbing. We find out how the lessons lear
Adrian Ballinger: The Future of Everest
Guide, climber and ski mountaineer Adrian Ballinger’s (https://www.instagram.com/adrianballinger/) life centered around the world’s biggest mountains. His company pioneered new tactics and Adrian helped bring the mountain to a new generatio
The Last Dirtbag
Passion before comfort. It’s arguably the defining ethos of dirtbag culture. While there is handwringing and consternation in the online world about whether climbing has lost its way from its origins in Camp Four, we sit down with James Luc
Do Grades Matter?
Grades. Love them or hate them, they’re part of our sport. Today, we sit down with Summit Journal’s (https://www.summitjournal.com/) Owen Clarke (https://www.instagram.com/opops13/), coach Juliet Hammer (https://www.instagram.com/juliet_ama
Jan Conn: Catching Pinecones
Who was the first dirtbag? In collaboration with filmmakers Chad Heddleston (https://www.instagram.com/chadheddleston/) and Parker Michels-Boyce (https://www.instagram.com/pmbphoto/?hl=en), we go back in time to meet Jan Conn (https://www.c
Palestinian Climbers
Climbing feels like freedom. It’s a sentiment that most of us can relate to. In the midst of war and violence in the Middle East, we return to the climbers of Resistance Climbing (https://watch.reelrocktour.com/videos/rr17-resistanceclimbin
Jordan Cannon: A Place In History
What’s the Venn diagram on Indiana Jones, El Cap and climbing history? Jordan Cannon. Jordan walks us down the path from hyper-stoked teenager to professional climber and El Cap ace. Arguably, it’s what Jordan’s done away from the wall that
Cheat Code: Tanner Wanish and Michael Vaill
Michael Vaill (https://www.instagram.com/vaill_michael/) and Tanner Wanish (https://www.instagram.com/ilikebigbuttress/) found the cheat code to adventure climbing – each other. Since they linked up on Mountain Project, it’s looked like the
Pete Whittaker: Beyond Wide
Pete Whittaker (https://www.instagram.com/petewhittaker01/) may have captured climbing’s hearts through his and fellow Wide Boy Tom Randall’s quest to complete the hardest offwidth on the planet, but he’s also quietly become one of the best
Wide Ponies and Offwidths
Offwidths – for most climbers they are a necessary evil, but for a fringe fraction, hard, often inverted offwidth climbing is the main attraction. We talk with offwidth climbers Sam MacIlwaine (https://www.instagram.com/adventuresam/), asso
Will Moss: Happy Little Accident
Last year, Will Moss (https://www.instagram.com/william.moss12/) became the first person to onsight El Cap in a day. It might not have happened though if the food and coconut water in his haul bag hadn’t gone bad, forcing him to make a game
Jon Krakauer: The Mountain's Shadow
Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air (https://dub.sh/Into-Thin-Air) chronicled the 1996 Everest disaster and launched a generation of interest in climbing and the natural world, but for Jon the tragedy that unfolded around him left him struggling w
Getting It Right: Charlize Theron and Beth Rodden
Will Hollywood ever get climbing right? Or at least passable? When Academy Award winner Charlize Theron went to work making her latest film Apex, the crew brought in climbing legend Beth Rodden to make it feel realistic. Sometimes you don’t
Connor Herson: Just Getting Started
Connor Herson couldn’t legally drive when he freed the Nose in 2018, competently navigating up his way up a route only Lynn Hill and Tommy Caldwell had freed. The climbing world wondered where this prodigy would take traditional climbing. I
Going Pro: Lincoln Knowles and Zander Waller
The path to professionalism is murky at best. Even for established world-class athletes, it’s a struggle to make it work. Two friends chart very different paths in the hopes of getting paid to do what they love. Watch Climbing Gold on https
Sean Bailey: Duality Of Man
Sean Bailey (https://www.instagram.com/seanbailey/) flies beneath the radar and he wants you to know he’s cool with that. Most of the time. After retiring from a decorated comp career, Sean has sent multiple v17 boulder problems and North A
Nasim Eshqi: The Fighter
When protests erupted in Iran in fall of 2022, human rights activist and professional climber Nasim Eshqi (https://www.instagram.com/nasimeshqi/) was climbing in France. As she watched the uprising back home unfold, Nasim knew that returnin
Jimmy Chin: Always Difficult
Jimmy Chin refuses to play the game on easy mode. Whether it’s climbing, photography or filmmaking, Jimmy has spent a career figuring out the most bad ass goal in whatever medium and then making it happen. He’s had some mentors along the wa
Enter the Dragon: Taipei 101 Recap
In the days after Alex’s successful climb of Taipei 101, Fitz and Alex debrief on the whirlwind week, including ending up in an SNL skit and the joy that comes from doing what you love. Watch Climbing Gold on https://bit.ly/ClimbingGoldYouT
James Bond Principles: Taipei 101
The internet is talking. Why is Alex so psyched to climb a skyscraper on live TV? How hard is Taipei 101? Is this a gimmick? The answers go deeper than you might expect. Fitz sat down with Alex to break it down before he left for Taipei. Wa
Alain Robert: The French Spiderman
Later this month, Alex will set out to climb the Taipei 101 skyscraper, but he certainly won’t be the first. For the last three decades, Alain Robert (https://www.instagram.com/alainrobertofficial/) has been the living legend of the undergr
Year In Review
2025 – what a year in climbing. Jonathan Siegrist and Leici Hendrix join us to break down the highlights. First woman to climb 5.15c. V17 in a session. El Cap flashed in a day. The next generation is now firmly in the driver seat and ready
Behind The Line: Biographie
In 2001, Chris Sharma ushered in 5.15a when he completed Biographie after pouring years into the long standing project. Its position, aesthetic, history and heartbreaking sequences that have spit off the best climbers cemented the route int
I'm Just A Climber
As climbers, are we powerless in the face of what’s happening to our public lands? We sat down with retired Senator Mark Udall and Heather Thorne, Executive Director of Access Fund (https://www.accessfund.org/), to talk about what we can do
Southern Climbing: Underrated or Overrated?
Alex has climbed all over the world, but he’s never visited some of our country’s best climbing areas. Today, three devoted southern climbers – Andrew Kornylak (https://www.instagram.com/akornylak/), Karen Lane (https://www.instagram.com/ka
Live with David Letterman
Last year, Alex sat down with legendary comedian and interviewer David Letterman in front of a live audience in New York City. Buckle up for a hilarious ride down memory lane. Watch Climbing Gold on https://bit.ly/ClimbingGoldYouTube Thanks
Brett Lowell: Front Row Seat
If there is a common thread between the greatest rock climbing achievements of the last few decades, it’s that cinematographer Brett Lowell was probably filming it. In high school, Brett found himself pulled into the world of climbing creat
Who The F@#k is Hamish McArthur?
Nearly unknown to the greater climbing world, Hamish McArthur walked on the mats at the Paris Olympics the epitome of an underdog. He wasn’t sure he even wanted to be there. When the dust settled, he’d placed fifth, ahead of legends and ris
Life On Everest: Melissa Arnot Reid
Climber Melissa Arnot Reid (https://www.instagram.com/melissaarnot?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MTg2NHZxbml1dm9ucw==) blazed her way into the elite circle of high altitude guides, but her ascent into rarified air came amidst de
