The American Alpine Club Story Project
By The American Alpine Club
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Podcast Description
A collection of oral histories from the American Alpine Club Library. The story project, created by Jason Albert, celebrates the legacy of climbers as they reflect upon their lives in the mountains. The American Alpine Club Library maintains a circulating collection of nearly 20,000 books and videos devoted to mountaineering and rock climbing is available for members to borrow. The Library has special strengths in American and foreign guidebooks, Mount Everest and the Himalayas, the Alps, and mountaineering history. The core mission of the American Alpine Club - inspiring and supporting climbers since 1902.
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Full length Interview: Colin Haley | Oral history interview discussing Colin Haley's climbing career. Credits / Creator: Jason Albert | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Length Interview: Tommy Caldwell | Topics discussed in the interview are the following. Estes Park, climbing Long’s Peak and the diamond as a young boy. Climbing Devils Tower as a child. Being a shy kid in Estes. Climbing in Bolivia when he was 14. Competition climbing and sport climbing. Building a base of strength from sport and competition climbing. Learning from Chris Sharma. Sport climbing in Rifle and Shelf road. Developing new climbing areas. Feeling pressure from competition climbing. Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan and how it changed his perspective. Prompted his move into adventure and big wall free climbing. Climbing Salathe Wall with his father, unable to free climb it and coming back a year later to free climb. Then freeing the Salathe a year later. Describes his process of figuring out the logistics of free climbing walls. “The language of free climbing El Cap.” Free climb Muir Wall, severing finger while working on his home, Beth Rodden, Salathe in a day was a watershed climb. Climbing with Hans Florine. Free climbing Dihedral Wall, Free climbing Lurking Fear, willing to suffer, climbing Fitz Roy in Patagonia, Topher Donahue, project on Mescalito. Free climbing The Nose, Lynn Hill, The Great Roof, Changing Corners Pitch. Ethics and Warren Harding, Royal Robbins, Yvon Chouinard, and Tom Frost. Breaking barriers as a climber. Credits: Creator: Jason Albert Subject: Tommy Caldwell Album Cover Art: Corey Rich/ Aurora Photos Artist and Music: Milosh-“Push” Location/Date of interview: Estes Park, Colorado 12/14/09 | 2/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kelly Cordes Full Length Interview | Credits -- Location/Date of interview: Boulder, Colorado 12/16/09 Artist and Music: Milosh-“Push” Album Cover Art: Colin Haley Creator: Jason Albert | 11/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Length Interview with Thomas Horbein | Oral history interview discussing Thomas Horbein’s climbing career. The conversation spans in topics from growing up in St. Louis to Everest, his medical career, and his profound relationships with friends. Credits -- Creator: Jason Albert, Album Cover Art: Thomas Hornbein Collection, Artist and Music: Milosh-“Push”, Location/Date of interview: Estes Park, Colorado 12/14/09 | 10/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Length Interview with Lynn Hill | Oral history interview discussing Lynn Hill’s climbing career. The conversation spans in topics from growing up in Southern California, learning to climb, and free climbing The Nose. Album Cover Art: Heinz Zak Artist and Music: Milosh-“Push” Location/Date of interview: Boulder, Colorado 12/16/09 | 9/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 5 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
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A great Podcast. I love it. Only one small complaint: I cannot download any of the other Podcasts (besides the 1st one) I get an error message. I've tried downloading on my iPhone and MacBook.
Amazing Podcast Series!
This podcast collection is truly an amazing and inspiring piece of work. Hearing about the lives of climbers from past and current eras is really an educational treat that benefits the knowledge and motivation of the entire climbing community. There are so many more possibilities (Beckey, Chouinard, Twight, House, etc). PLEASE create more of these great interviews!
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