The RunOut Podcast

The RunOut Podcast


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Runout #153: Sex, Angst, and Rocks—Emily Meg Weinstein
July 31, 2025

Emily Weinstein is a New Yorker, radical activist, rabid Met's fan, and climber who lives on a house boat in the San Francisco Bay. Her new book is called Turn to Stone: A Memoir.But first we catch up what's happening in our climbing worlds, from sta

The RunOut #152: Will Moss (Actually) Day Flashes Free Rider
July 20, 2025

Will Moss is a trad climber originally from New York. He recently flashed Free Rider on El Capitan, becoming the first to do it in a day and only the second person ever to flash an El Cap free climb. Will's preparation to flash this route was insanely det

The RunOut #151: Linking it up with Tanner Wanish and Michael Vaill 
June 29, 2025

Tanner Wanish and Michael Vaill are two of the best speed climbers in Yosemite today. They currently hold the record for the historic Yosemite Triple Crown with a time of 17 hours and 55 minutes, and they're also the only climbers to also add in a fourth

RunOut 150: Girl Climber, with Emily Harrington and Jon Glassberg
June 11, 2025

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 f

RunOut 149: Jordan Cannon and Mark Hudon, live from El Cap
May 22, 2025

Jordan Cannon is a professional climber, known for his free and speed-climbing feats on El Capitan. Mark Hudon is one of the fathers of big-wall free climbing, best known for making a very early and audacious free attempt of the Salath Wall in 1979 with

RunOut 148: The Evolution of Sonnie Trotter 
May 17, 2025

Sonnie Trotter is a professional climber from Canada, whose notable ascents include the first ascent of Cobra Crack in Squamish, The Shining on Mount Louis, and the Pineapple Express on El Capitan. His new book is called UPLIFTED: The Evolution of a Climb

RunOut 147: How Briana Mazzolini-Blanchard is Pushing the Limits of Climbing Activism
May 05, 2025

Briana Mazzolini-Blanchard is the executive director of Urban Native Collective, the host of the Life on the Margins: An Urban Native Experience podcast, the co-founder of the Indigenous Field Guide, and a collaborator with the American Climbing Project.

RunOut #146: From Big Walls to Open Water: Unlocking the Expedition Mindset with Mark Synnott
April 16, 2025

Mark Synnott is a professional big-wall climber, expedition sailor, and writer whose books have included The Third Pole and The Impossible Climb. His latest book is Into The Ice, an epic read about his recent voyage across the infamous Northwest Passage a

RunOut #145: Here Come the Management Plans 
April 03, 2025

Earlier this year, the Bears Ears Resource Management Plan dropped, outlining rules regarding camping, waste management, dogs, and, perhaps most controversially, fixed anchors for new routes across the monument, which includes, of course, Indian Creek. Ja

RunOut #144: Life After Competition: Hannah Schubert and Eating Disorders in Climbing
March 19, 2025

Hannah Schubert is an Austrian climber who has podiumed at the World Cup and the World Championships. Now retired from professional competition, Hannah was recently profiled in Der Spiegel, one of Germanys' largest publications, where she opened up about