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Podcast

Making Sense of the Data

Understanding the Female Athlete

Strength for the Female Athlete

Gas Exchange and Altitude Acclimatization with Dr Patrycja Jonetzko

2026 Uphill Athlete Coaches Goal Setting Summit

2025 Trail and Mountain Running Highlights with Gabe Joyes

The Life Between Climbs with Scott Backes

How to Choose Safe and Effective Products

Should Endurance Athletes Use Supplements?

The Joy of Ski Training

The Yosemite Triple with Laura Pineau

Foot Care with Dr. Jeff Hammond

2025 Everest Trends with Steve House, Alan Arnette, Martin Zhor

The Process of Becoming with Joe Corcione

Training to Climb Aconcagua

Training for Speed and Longevity with World Record Holder Zach Bitter

What Can Trail Runners and Climbers Learn from One Another? with Vitaliy Musiyenko

How to Eat for Recovery: Nutrition Strategies for Mountain Athletes

Xenon Gas and the Future of Big Mountain Expeditions with Lukas Furtenbach

Xenon Gas and High-Altitude Performance with Dr. Peter Hackett

Uphill Athlete Book Club: The Business of Everest with Will Cockrell

The Season of Injury

Your Diet Sucks x Uphill Athlete

A Family Affair: Hilary Spires on Running the HURT 100

Tanner Wanish on Positive Suffering, Sponsorships, and Climbing Hard

Strength Considerations for Mountain Athletes with Coach Drew Hammond

UTMB Findings and Future Goals

Manaslu at 8000m with Martin Zhor

We Failed! Finding Lessons within Failure

Gabe Joyes and Multi-Day Stage Racing

Fasted Training, Fat Oxidation, and Low-Carb, High-Fat Diets

Coaching 101

Uphill Athlete Book Club: The Color of Everything with Cory Richards

Training Zones and How to Use Them

Uphill Athlete Book Club: Higher Ground with Luis Benitez

Sky Running with Lukas Mann

Your Altitude Questions Answered

Performance at Altitude

Acclimatization Strategies, Part 2: High and Extreme Altitude

Acclimatization Strategies, Part 1: Foundations and Moderate Altitude

Guiding at Altitude

Mental Training Tips for Altitude Trips

Nutrition Considerations for Altitude

Introduction to Altitude

Guy Cotter on Everest

A Climbing Conversation with Steve House and Josh Wharton

Riding the Dragon’s Back with Alyssa Clark and Will Weidman

The Scandinavian Arctic Traverse: Lessons and Learnings with Branden Joy

Stories of Charkusa with Priti Wright and Lindsey Hamm

Nutrition Tips for Athletes: Holiday Edition

Chronicles of K2 with Jon Lawrie and Martin Zhor: Part 2

Chronicles of K2 with Jon Lawrie and Martin Zhor: Part 1

Tragedy on the Haute Route: A Conversation with Steve House

Training for Trail Running: Race Strategies and Preparation

Training for Trail Running: Caring for Your Body (Suggestions from a Physio)

Training for Trail Running: Environmental Influences and Running in Extremes

Training For Trail Running: Nutrition Advice with RD Rebecca Dent

Training for Trail Running: Round Table Fueling Strategies

Training for Trail Running: Crewing and Pacing

Training for Trail Running: Special Guest Hillary Gerardi

Training for Trail Running: Muscular Endurance

Training for Trail Running: Strength Training

Training for Trail Running: Environmentalism (with Damian Hall)

Training for Trail Running: Longevity at the Top (with John Kelly)

Training for Trail Running: Base Training to Course Specialization

Training for Trail Running: FKTs, Adventure, Racing

Training for Mountaineering: Tapering and Post-Mountain Blues

Training for Mountaineering: Strength

Training for Mountaineering: Climbing Specific Period

Training for Mountaineering: Base Training

Prehab for Mountaineering Training

The Psychology of Risk and Fear: How to Know When to Go

Fundamentals of Training for Mountaineering: Part 2 – Aerobic Threshold Testing

Fundamentals of Training for Mountaineering: Part 1

A New Mountain to Climb

David Goettler On Summiting Everest Without Bottled Oxygen

Our 24-Week Mountaineering Training Plan used by Damon T to Climb Both Everest and Lhotse

Interview With Ultra Running Phenom, Clare Gallagher

Dealing with unplanned circumstances in the mountains with Kylee Toth

Talking Athletic Training, Ski-mo Racing, and Motherhood With Nikki LaRochelle

Muscular Endurance for Mountain Athletes

Talking with Physical Therapist, Pete Dickinson

Introducing Chamonix Mountain Fit LITE

Strategies and Methods to Balance Life

Introducing Uphill Athlete Yoga

Recovery by Feel

Mountaineering Training with Expedition Guide Adrian Ballinger

Hormones and Training as a Female Uphill Athlete

Female Uphill Athletes and Coaches Discuss Training for Women and the Pressure to Prove Themselves

Killian Jornet and David Goettler: Everest 2021

Training Junior Athletes

Climbing Everest at 75 Years Old with Art Muir

Talking Speed and Form for Endurance Athletes

Talking Injury Recovery and Self Identity with Hillary Allen

Phil Maffetone on Over Training

Through Trauma and Grief with Barry Blanchard

Guidance for Integrating Loss And Grief

At the Intersection of Trauma, Grief, and Loss

Mental Health for Mountain Athletes: Resilience

Training During Lock Down with Mark Sears

Talking Health, Performance, and Longevity with Jesse Charles, MD

Cody Townsend, Pro Ski Mountaineer, Gets Put in the Hot Seat

Talking Safety and Preparedness for Backcountry Skiing with Larry Goldie

Talking Metabolic Testing with Director of Sports Performance at UC Davis, Judd Van Sickle

Phil Maffetone Talks Health, Training, and Aerobic Deficiency with Scott Johnston

Talking Strength Training for Mountain Sports

Introducing Chamonix Mountain Fit

Our Female Coaches Discuss Training and Mountain Pursuits for Female Athletes

Dr. Olga Dobranowski on Balancing Training, Career, Family Life…and Big Mountains.

Navigating Training Plans Through Time

Talking Ski Mountaineering with Nikki LaRochelle and Mike Foote

Talking Overtraining

Meet Art Muir: How a 74 year old Athlete-In-Training Approaches Training and Mountain Goals

Cody, Wyoming Ice Climbing

Talking Tactical Training with Drew Hammond

Talking Ultra Running and Ski-Mo with Mike Foote

Scott Johnston Talks with Luke Nelson on Training for Ultra Running

Nutrition for the Aging Athlete

The Unexpected Evolution of Uphill Athlete

On Mental Toughness, Slovenian Athletes, and the Need to Prove It

High Altitude Expedition Doctor, Monica Piris, MD

Coping with Catastrophic Injury

Talking High Altitude Training with David Goettler

Talking Injury with Staff Physical Therapist Pete Dickenson

The Aging Athlete

All About Aerobic Base

Free Speed: A Talk With Coach Scott Semple

AMA with Steve House

Training, Stress, and Success for Female Athletes with Alison Naney

Voice of the Mountains

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