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  • RunOut 150: Girl Climber, with Emily Harrington and Jon Glassberg

    RunOut 150: Girl Climber, with Emily Harrington and Jon Glassberg

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    Jon Glassberg is a photographer and filmmaker, and Emily Harrington is one of America’s most prolific professional climbers, whose all-around feats span summits of 8,000 meter peaks, 5.14, National Comp podiums, and free ascents of El Capitan. Their new film is Girl Climber, which is profile of Emily and her quest to free climb Golden Gate on El Capitan in a day. 

    But first, crack open a case of Send Lite and help us ponder whether we need way more terms for doing what we do with our rock-climbing ascents.

    Our final bit is “Big Wall,” an alt-rock ear worm from Nathan Murdoch, from the forthcoming EP “If You’re Not There.”

    Show Notes

    Follow Emily Harrington

    Follow Jon Glassberg

    Pre-order Girl Climber from Jolt Film

    Girl Climber film review from Climbing Mag

    Follow Nathan Murdoch

    Listen to Big Wall on Spotify 

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  • RunOut #53: Embracing Your Own Progression with Nina Caprez

    RunOut #53: Embracing Your Own Progression with Nina Caprez

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    If you’ve ever found yourself clawing your way up the second pitch of a Gunks moderate with a 25-pound rack gear slung across your sweaty chest, you may also find yourself dumbfounded when you see pictures of pro climbers free climbing 20 pitches up the side of El Cap with nothing but a single locker and maybe an X4 on their harness. What do they know that you don’t? We share the secret knowledge of how “real” climbing gets done, and other sausage-making tips.

    Next, we chat with Swiss climbing icon Nina Caprez about her current adventures during COVID. Turns out she’s taking #vanlife to the next level while re-evaluating what goals and progression mean on a personal level.

    Finally, Niall Grimes delivers an unforgettable tribute to the late Doug Scott in a way that only he can.

    Show Notes

    Nina Caprez and “Andrea,” Nina Caprez’s adventure rig.

    Niall Grimes and his Jam Crack Podcast

    Portrait (C): Keith Ladzinski

  • RunOut #34: Yosemite Is Still the Center of the Universe

    RunOut #34: Yosemite Is Still the Center of the Universe

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    The very first time I drove into Yosemite, I almost couldn’t wait to lay eyes on El Cap and Half Dome after so much time spent dreaming about one day climbing these formations. I paid my entrance fee and hit the gas on my Nissan Sentra, sputtering ahead until I found myself soon stuck behind a slow-moving rental RV, which was one of those RVs with a cheesy depiction of Yosemite’s famous tunnel view plastered across the back of the rig.

    The irony of the moment was not lost on me, nor did it ultimately detract from the moment when El Cap finally came into view. It literally took my breath away.

    Yosemite is the center of the climbing universe. It’s the place where style, ethics, rules, techniques, gear, myths, stories, and legends were born. And even after all these years, Yosemite is still very much where it’s at. What happens here is almost automatically interesting.

    Which is why Chris and I are talking about what went down in Yosemite this past season. Big sends, grand failures, and run-of-the-mill world-class climbing on the best granite in America.

    This is Andrew Bisharat, and I’m here with Chris Kalous and you’re listening to The RunOut. And today we’re geeking out on Yosemite and all the rad people doing rad things there. And before we begin the episode, I must include a serious shout out to one of the stories we missed, that of big-wall climbing pioneer Mark Hudon returning, at age 63, to Freerider, and damn near sending. He free-climbed all but 15 feet of the Freerider, which is definitely one of the best efforts of the year.

    Hudon, of course, was one of the first people even to consider El Cap as a free-climbing project, exactly 40 years ago when he and his partner Max Jones made an audacious bid at free climbing the Salathe wall. The fact that he returned 40 years later and almost sent the Freerider Variation, is just awesome.

    What an incredible story. What an incredible sport we have here. Gives me the all the feels.

    OK, hope you enjoy this episode. On with the show.

    PHOTO: Tara Kerzhner