Birth Pains of New Nations - Pete Oxley
The whims and motivations of climbers really are another world to the person in the street. Understanding them is crossing a threshold, it requires a ...
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Factor Two is a climbing podcast with impact, brought to you by Wil Treasure and UKClimbing.com. It brings you the best climbing stories straight from the people at their heart - and the best climbing stories are always about a little bit more than just climbing.
Hateja - Louise Thomas and Glenda Huxter
If you had to select your late 90s dream team for a British, all-female Himalayan big wall trip, you couldn’t go far wrong with this one. Glenda Huxte...
Finding the Balance - Katherine Schirrmacher
We all get enjoyment from climbing for different reasons. For many of us those reasons change over time, according to our geography, time, money and o...
El Capitan - a film by Fred Padula
In the spring of 1968 San Francisco film maker, Fred Padula, drove into the Yosemite Valley and gazed up at El Capitan. He had been approached by one ...
Hard Grit
When it was released in 1998, Hard Grit gave us an insight into something we didn’t often see - the actual ascents of the hardest, most dangerous line...
A Play for Voices - Helen Mort and Anna Fleming
When you look at the books on a shelf of mountaineering literature one thing is quickly apparent: the vast majority are written by men. The same is tr...
Brave New World - Tom Livingstone and Twid Turner
It’s hard to be truly disconnected these days. Even in the weirdness of isolation over the past few months many of us have been working from home, con...
Deep Play - Neil Gresham
"I climb better when I'm scared." I've heard this quite a few times. I even thought it was true about myself for a while in my earlier climbing career...
Walking the Magic Line
Flow is a concept that can divide in climbing. For Dave Thomas it was the joyous experience that removed him from other problems in life. For Mina Les...
The Moment You Doubt - Ben Bransby
Many of the stories in Factor Two feature the same scenario - What next? You always imagine ticking the big goal might be enough, but it rarely is. Fo...