Climbing Gold
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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 110
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
John Bachar: The Interview
John Bachar may have been the Stonemasters brightest star. His audacious free climbs and even more audacious free solos turned heads around the globe. Sadly, John fell while free soloing in 2009. Las…
00:59:35 |
Fri 05 Sep 2025
Girl Climber: Emily Harrington
El Cap. Free. In a day. It's an accomplishment that puts a climber in lofty company. In 2020, Emily Harrington succeeded on Golden Gate. It was a multi-year effort that required finding her outermost…
00:57:09 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
Katie Lamb: The Dark Side
Katie Lamb has been cutting her teeth on a steady diet of some of the country’s hardest boulders. When she became the first woman to climb V16, she was surprised by the spotlight that came with that …
01:03:36 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
Climbing Blind: The Duftons
Together, Jesse and Molly Dufton create one of the most unique partnerships in rock climbing. Jesse knew two things from a young age. The feeling that traditional climbing gave him was something that…
00:40:55 |
Fri 25 Jul 2025
Uplifted: Sonnie Trotter
Sonnie Trotter would never admit to being Canada’s best rock climber, but his multi-decade career of cutting-edge trad climbs and nails-hard sport routes certainly puts him in that conversation. In h…
01:01:07 |
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Thirty Below: Cassidy Randall
Writer Cassidy Randall’s new book Thirty Below unearths the story of the first all-female ascent of Denali in 1970 and reveals a deeper story of ambition and teamwork. It’s an incredible story with c…
00:51:18 |
Fri 27 Jun 2025
Chris Sharma: Olympic Hopeful
Elite competition is a young person's game, but when 44-year-old legend Chris Sharma witnessed climbing on the Olympic stage last summer, it lit a fire in him, or at least a small flame. Chris undeni…
00:55:28 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
TryHardness: Amity Warme
Amity Warme first showed up in Yosemite Valley in 2019 young, scrappy and in love with the adventurous side of our sport. What’s followed since is a meteoric rise through the discipline of traditiona…
00:48:59 |
Fri 30 May 2025
Vitaliy and Goliath
In 2021, Vitaliy Musiyenko closed the chapter on a years-long obsession with a 32-mile-ridge line featuring 60 summits in the heart of the Sierra. The Goliath Traverse is likely the longest ridge tra…
00:56:26 |
Fri 16 May 2025
Michaela Kiersch: The Path To Dreamtime
In 2024, Michaela Kiersch became the first woman to climb both V15 and 5.15 putting her on climbing’s global radar. To midwest climbers and those in the know, she was already a legend for her incredi…
00:55:34 |
Fri 02 May 2025
Ups and Downs: Cody Townsend
After rising to the highest echelon of professional skiing, Cody Townsend took a step back and embraced climbing to take him to the next chapter of his career. Today, Cody sits on the cusp of complet…
01:03:32 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
Janja Garnbret: The Lioness
We are back with the Greatest of All Time – Janja Garnbret. For the last decade, Janja has dominated competitive climbing, capping it off with her second gold medal at the Olympics last summer. Where…
00:50:54 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
Ben Mayforth: Growth Mindset
Ben Mayforth’s strength is a sight to behold. The professional paraclimber’s social clips of campusing double digit boulder problems may have made it into your social feed, but his story runs much de…
00:52:17 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
The Devil's Climb
Last summer, Alex and Tommy Caldwell rode bikes from Estes Park, Colorado to SE Alaska where they boarded a sailboat which dropped them beneath the fabled Devil’s Thumb. Their adventure is now a film…
00:51:54 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
Saving Cochamó
Tucked away in a corner of Chilean Patagonia, Valle Cochamó wasn’t going to stay hidden forever. The soaring unclimbed granite walls instilled dreams of first ascents in climbers. Industrialists eyed…
00:55:35 |
Fri 18 Oct 2024
Jamie Logan: Going The Distance
5.13 at 78. That’s staggering, but the numbers don’t capture the breadth of Jamie Logan’s climbing career, which now spans seven decades. Through every chapter of our sport, Jamie has been a contribu…
01:05:51 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
Cory Richards: The Unquiet Mind
Alpinist and photographer Cory Richards was living at full speed. A steady stream of Himalayan expeditions and assignments from National Geographic kept him relentlessly moving around the world. Mean…
01:01:25 |
Fri 04 Oct 2024
Lynn Hill: A Magician Needs A Stage
El Cap. Free. In a day. Putting those words on your resume puts you in the league of legends. How did that become the bar? Lynn Hill. A singular athlete who stepped up to the biggest stage in climbin…
00:43:00 |
Fri 27 Sep 2024
Margo Hayes: Renaissance Woman
Ms. 5.15 – that was the moniker the climbing world bestowed on Margo Hayes after she became the first woman to climb the grade. Two more 5.15’s followed and Margo seemed poised to be a defining climb…
01:07:03 |
Fri 20 Sep 2024
Babsi and Jacopo: The Flame Burns Bright
While most of the elite climbing world has turned its attention to raw difficulty in sport and bouldering, Babsi Zangerl and Jacopo Larcher have been carrying the torch for hard, sometimes dangerous,…
00:47:12 |
Fri 13 Sep 2024
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