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Ep 28: Hot Topics Nepal

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08/24/16 • 54 min

Ed Douglas moderates a panel of mountain guides, sherpas and journalists as they talk about their experiences in Nepal after the devastating earthquake of April 2015. #bestofthemountainfest

08/24/16 • 54 min

Ep 27: Yvon Chouinard

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08/10/16 • 32 min

Environmental activist and Patagonia Inc. founder Yvon Chouinard in conversation with author and alpinist Ed Douglas. #bestofthemountainfest

08/10/16 • 32 min

Ep 26: Broughton Coburn

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07/27/16 • 45 min

Award-winning author Broughton Coburn talks about how the Sherpa ethnic group has been transformed by the mountaineering and trekking trades. #bestofthemountainfest

07/27/16 • 45 min

Ep 25: Wilderness - On the Razor's Edge

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06/22/16 • 55 min

A panel discussion on whether or not there is still hope for preserving the world’s wildest landscapes. #bestofthemountainfest

06/22/16 • 55 min

Ep 24: Lydia Bradey

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06/08/16 • 47 min

In this episode, we revisit the 2015 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival to hear Greg Child and Lydia Bradey talk about the controversy surrounding her 1988 summit of Mt. Everest. The climb made her the first woman to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen — a claim her own teammates denied for years. #bestofthemountainfest

06/08/16 • 47 min

Ep 23: JB MacKinnon

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05/25/16 • 45 min

100-Mile Diet author JB MacKinnon talks about the ideas behind his book, The Once and Future World, which reveals the natural world of the past and what it tells us about nature today. #bestofthemountainfest

05/25/16 • 45 min

Ep 21: Carol Shaben

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04/14/16 • 42 min

Canadian writer Carol Shaben talks about the incident behind her book, Into the Abyss, which tells the true story of a plane crash in the Alberta wilderness where the survivors included a prisoner and her father Larry Shaben, Canada’s first Muslim Cabinet Minister. #bestofthemountainfest

04/14/16 • 42 min

Ep 20: Alex Honnold on his memoir, Alone on the Wall

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04/05/16 • 28 min

On this episode writer and climber Greg Child talks with the world-renowned climber Alex Honnold about his memoir, Alone on the Wall. Famous for his daring solo climbs, Alex shares a more personal side in stories about atheism, his father, and learning as you go. #bestofthemountainfest

04/05/16 • 28 min

Ep 19: Wide Boyz

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03/11/16 • 55 min

A feature interview with the Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall, AKA the daredevil off-width climbers best known as the Wide Boyz. #bestofthemountainfest

03/11/16 • 55 min

Ep 29: Zac Robinson on Conrad Kain

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09/06/16 • 37 min

Conrad Kain is an iconic mountaineer credited with 69 first ascents in Canada. Historian and climber Zac Robinson speaks about the man and the legend, drawing from the book he helped write, "Conrad Kain: Letters From a Wandering Mountain Guide". #bestofthemountainfest

09/06/16 • 37 min

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