Episodes | Uphill Athlete

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Steve House sits down with alpinist and venture capitalist Kyle Lefkoff — and producer Jamie Lyko — for a candid Season 2 retrospective. Together, they surface the recurring themes across this season's conversations: risk as competitive advantage, the explorer's mindset, delayed gratification, and how elite mountain athletes make the turn to lives of lasting impact.
This is the full, unedited version of Steve House's conversation with Peter Metcalf — extended and running longer than the standard episode release.
Dr. Christine Theodorovics — Viennese-born insurance CEO, doctoral researcher, and accomplished recreational mountaineer — joins Steve House for a wide-ranging conversation about what the mountains teach us that the boardroom cannot.
In this concluding conversation, Mark Twight takes Steve into the harrowing heart of the 1988 Nanga Parbat expedition—four climbers clipped to a single ice screw, buried under avalanche debris for thirty minutes on the world's largest mountain wall.
Steve House sits down with legendary alpinist Mark Twight for one of Voice of the Mountains' most anticipated episodes. This deeply personal dialogue—the show's first in-person recording—reunites two climbers whose friendship spans more than three decades.
Entrepreneur and Harvard researcher Jon Winsor joins Steve House to explore the explorer’s mindset—from Kilimanjaro FKTs to surviving avalanches to navigating his wife’s suicide.
Steve House sits down with Kyle Lefkoff, a rare figure who has lived at the intersection of serious alpinism and venture capital for nearly four decades.
Steve House sits down with legendary climber and entrepreneur Randy Leavitt to explore how vision, hard work, and delayed gratification shaped a lifetime of adventure.
In this episode, host Steve House engages thought-provoking conversation with Greg Penner on risk, resilience, and leadership which spans Everest summits, Fortune 500 boardrooms, and the Denver Broncos.
Join mountaineer Melissa Arnot Reid as she shares her journey of resilience, motherhood, and leadership in the mountains, exploring bravery, fear, and redefining success on her own terms.