Designed by Jeff Deikis
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The American Alpine Club Podcast: Our Vision
That’s right. You can now take a deep dive into your favorite American Alpine Club content via your headphones, car stereo, and more. The drive to work—or your favorite hang board routine—just got way more interesting. Episodes will typically fall into four categories: Climb; Protect; Educate; Connect.
Climb episodes will be just that—about climbs big and small, and the things they make us realize, in conversation with AAC community members.
Protect episodes will dive into the nuances of policy and advocacy issues that matter most to climbers.
Educate episodes will span the logistics of safety and accidents, as well as the history of climbing and how it can inform our present.
Connect episodes will cover the social side of our climbing community, including important conversations about equity and inclusion that have emerged from our work with the Climb United initiative.
Check back here, the AAC Stories Archive, to find the latest episodes and show notes, and subscribe to the American Alpine Club Podcast at your favorite podcast source: Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts.
Episode 01
Protect: An Interview on Climate with Graham Zimmerman and Jill Pelto
“Graham Zimmerman is an alpinist and climate advocate–scaling the highest mountains in the world and energizing climbers around taking action to fight climate change. Jill Pelto is a climate artist whose aesthetic tactics of combining climate data with artistic expression is striking and thought-provoking. In this discussion, the AAC dives in with Graham and Jill about communicating the intricacies of climate change, climate impacts they’ve personally witnessed in the mountains, what motivates them to advocate, and why it matters to climbers so damn much.”