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 r...
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Factor Two is the new podcast from UKClimbing.com, bringing you the best climbing stories straight from the people at the heart of them.
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Listen to Factor Two, a Sports & Recreation podcast by Wil Treasure. Stream 24 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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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. Gl...
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, m...
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 approach...
Hard Grit - Rich Heap, Niall Grimes and Seb Grieve
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 dang...
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...
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...
Deep Play - Neil Gresham and Dr Rebecca Williams
"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 climb...
Walking the Magic Line - Hazel Findlay and Dr Rebecca Williams
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. Fo...
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 rar...
Freebird - Ben Bransby
After hearing from Leo Houlding and Patch Hammond about their legendary Yosemite season in 1998 there was one obvious gap in our story - Ben...
Living in the Shadows - Franco Cookson
Internet forums wouldn't be the same without their villains and heroes, would they? Franco Cookson appeared on the UKC forums back in Februa...
No More Heroes? - Patch Hammond
Patch Hammond has remained a bit of an enigma in the climbing world. If you flick through the magazines from the late 1990s you'll see a scr...
No More Worlds - Leo Houlding
Back in 1998 Leo Houlding and Patch Hammond achieved something almost unthinkable – a near onsight ascent of El Capitan. They were just 18,...
On and Off - A headpointing story
Prompted by Franco Cookson's article on headpointing recently I thought I'd dig out this interview I recorded in November 2017 with Tim Lowe...
Clouds Come and Go
In the last two episodes we looked at aspects of flow, whether seeking the euphoria as an escape or chasing it as a performance tool. But th...
Me and My Shadow - Mina Leslie-Wujastyk
Mina Leslie-Wujastyk has already established herself as one of the best sport climbers in the country, with redpoints up to 8c. For the past...
More Than a Dream - Dave Thomas
The young Dave Thomas was motivated by one thing above all others – soloing. In his own words he's "Never climbed a hard route", but anyone...
Sally Can Wait
There's something both romantic and illogical about taking the ultimate risk in climbing; leaving the rope behind and going solo. Justifying...
The Black Dog
Katy Forrester is a former member of the British bouldering and ice climbing teams. She's a fell runner and an accomplished trad and sport c...
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