Make some room, friends: There’s a new storyteller coming to the mic. Two of mountaineering’s most adventurous climbers, Adrian Ballinger and Sam Kieckhefer, have launched a new podcast about “navigating the highest altitudes from a guide’s perspective.”
The Duffel Shuffle debuts on Tuesday, April 2, and promises plenty of alpine sport insight, from tips about dealing with extreme terrain to current news in skiing and climbing.
The first season includes some of the best mountain athletes around, with the inaugural episode featuring climbing rock star Emily Harrington. Subsequent episodes will air every 2 weeks. Other guests lined up already include Cody Townsend, Michelle Parker, Alex Honnold, Cory Richards, Carla Perez, and Esteban “Topo” Mena.
“Before I went into that world of high-altitude climbing, I didn’t really understand what suffering was, or how to suffer, or the idea that you had to perform under unideal circumstances, which is basically all high-altitude climbing,” Harrington says in a preview episode released in March.
