The Enormocast: the climbing podcast

With 35 years of climbing experience and going on 14 years behind the mic, Chris Kalous brings interviews, tributes, discussion, tears, and lots of laughs from the full breadth of the climbing zeitgeist. Rock climbing, bigwall (big wall?) climbing, alpini

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Episode 148: Hugh Herr - Never Broken

Posted April 4, 201800:53:10

On Episode 148, I had the honor and pleasure of talking to Hugh Herr. Hugh was a prodigy rock climber as a kid, and in 1982, at the age of 17, an accident...

Episode 147: Phil Powers – Teacher, Steward, Student.

Posted March 20, 201800:55:52

On Episode 147 of the Enormocast, I sit down with current American Alpine Club CEO, Phil Powers. Phil cut his climbing teeth as an instructor at NOLS,...

Episode 138: Heidi Wirtz – The Long Game.

Posted October 18, 201701:11:04

On Episode 138 of the Enormocast, I sit down with my old friend, Heidi Wirtz. Heidi came up in climbing rock and ice in the hard-knocks backwater of...

Episode 131: Hansjörg Auer – Finding the Moment. - The Enormocast: a climbing podcast

Posted June 22, 201701:02:47

On Episode 131 of the Enormocast, I sit down with Austrian climber, Hansjörg Auer. Hans somewhat reluctantly blasted onto the European climbing scene...

Episode 130- Jacopo Larcher – So Many Routes, So Many Dreams - The Enormocast: a climbing podcast

Posted June 9, 201700:59:57

On Episode 130, I sit down with Italian rock climber, Jacopo Larcher. We caught up while both in Spain and climbing at Siurana. Jacopo was on a mission...