JCPC 061 Yuji Hirayama

Warning! A-Lister!

Top climber, top guy, Japan’s Yuji Hirayama has pushed many of climbing’s boundaries in his day. An early master of comps in the 1990s, first on-sight of 8c, The Nose speed record, and still climbing at a high level today. Hear his vibe.

Warning! I seemed to chat on for ages at the start. Be prepared to skip the first twenty-five or so minutes for the good bit.

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JCPC 060 Angus Kille reads Indian Face

Photo: Nick Dixon

Angus Kille reads his account of climbing Indian Face, Britain’s first E9, and one of the most feared leads in the country. Originally published on Andrew Bisharat’s Evening Sends website.

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JCPC 059 Hannah Baldwin, Be Fuller

Hannah Baldwin is one of the three British paraclimbers to win gold at the World Championships in Innsbruck this year. In this chat we talk about about one-legged climbing, Crohn's disease, climbing hard, dreaming 8a and her relationship with her coach, Be Fuller.

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JCPC 058 Ned Feehally

He’s one half of the Beastmaker team, and one of the strongest climbers in the UK. Ned Feehally has added some of the country’s hardest problems, bouldered up to Font 8C, done well in comps and pushed the art of highball bouldering as far as it’s been pushed. Yet he remains backstage and keeps his climbing to himself. Let’s hear what this dark horse has to say.

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JCPC 057 Shirin Shabestari

Brothers and sisters,.

I first met Shirin about three years ago at the premiere of her film, Damavand, where she recalled childhood exploits into her native Iranian mountains with her father, and how much their freedom meant to a young girl in that culture. It showed her return in later life to climb Iran’s highest peak, Damavand. We chat around these subjects and how this one climb changed the direction of Shirin’s life, and how climbing sustained her through the results of this change in direction..

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JCPC 055 Gary Gibson

O come all ye faithful.

Britain's most prolific new router, most dedicated bolter and most obsessive Stranglers fan talks about life and near death. Gary has added more new routes than you and me put together, that’s for sure. Unless you have added 4,683 cos I’ve only done 17.

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JCPC 054 Johnny Dawes and Nick Dixon

Yo Crackpots,

Dream episode for me. Nick Dixon and Johnny Dawes snuggle up under Nesscliffe’s bulk to talk Cloggy, Gogarts, Morphic resonance and above all, have a crack. This is Jam Crack gold.

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JCPC 053 Ben Silvestre reads Gogarth

Ben Silvestre reads Student of Sand about doing Ludwig, E6 6b, on Gogarth's Yellow Wall, and a poem about living in a van.

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JCPC 052 Michael Duffy

Heads up, heads.

In our continuing Irish theme, this week Jam Crack Climbing Podcast brings you Michael Duffy. Michael has been a cornerstone of the Irish climbing scene since he was 14 years old and he continues to thrive and develop. In the later years he has pushed bouldering in Ireland, nudging standards towards the Font 8C mark. Legend. In this hour we chat about entering the scene, influences, bouldering, sport climbing and, of course, soul. It’s mega, I swear.

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JCPC 051 Story - In Fairness

Weekend bonus story time.

I’m pumping out weekend short stories. This weekend Andy Moles reads his own story, In Fairness, about Fair Head. Check out episode 49, the interview with Calvin Torrand, for context..

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JCPC 050 Mick Fowler

What an honour!

This week we welcome to Jam Crack Climbing Podcast Mick Fowler, Britain's most celebrated adventure mountaineer of the last decades. He talks about loose seacliffs, Scottish winter, the London scene, expeditions and cancer.

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JCPC 049 Calvin Torrans Interview

This guy’s the don, swear to God. The Godfather of Funk of Irish climbing. A gentleman, a scholar and an acrobat. Calvin Torrans is the Source.

I very recommend you listen to this.

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