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,...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 wh...

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 wild...

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 d...

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