Jam Crack - The Niall Grimes Climbing Podcast
159 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsIrish / Sheffield climber and author Niall Grimes in conversation with top dogs, cool cats and committed crag rats from the neighbourhood and the international climbing scene. Also classic climbing stories read aloud for your aural pleasure. Mmmmmmm! See more at http://www.niallgrimes.com
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Episodes
JCPC 153 Beth Rodden
April 18, 2024 19:38 - 1 hour - 48.6 MBClimbing royalty. Beth Rodden’s impact on climbing from the late 90s to the late 00s was huge. She pushed forward female standards in sport and trad, did early free ascents on El cap, and established a crack testpiece where ascents still make the news. Injuries led to a stepping back, motherhood followed and she has now written her autobiography, A Light Through the Cracks.
JCPC 152 Remus Knowles
March 30, 2024 10:15 - 2 hours - 75 MBMe and Remus talk crap about climbing.
JCPC 151 Andrew Bisharat
March 06, 2024 17:36 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBWriter and podcaster Andrew Bisharat looks back on a life in journalism, creativity, climbing, being mbbed and his involvement in the Palestine-based film, Resistance Climbing.
JCPC 150 Jerry Moffatt Revelations
February 25, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBOn the 15th anniversary of Jerry Moffatt Revelations, for which I was ghost writer, I read some sections, remember the creation and listen to some recordings.
JCPC 149 Mari Salvesen
February 21, 2024 17:41 - 2 hours - 72.9 MBNorweigan trad beast, crack shuffler and professional amateur Mari talks Troll Wall, local clubs, El Cap and always looking forward.
JCPC 148 Billy, Alex and The Nose Part 2
January 25, 2024 18:11 - 1 hour - 50.9 MBPart 2 of the amazing tale of Billy Ridal and Alex Waterhouse's epic free ascent of The Nose on El Cap.
JCPC 147 Alex, Billy and The Nose Part 1
January 24, 2024 13:19 - 1 hour - 47 MBHaving recently retired from a life of indoor comps, two plastic-hardened heroes declare to the world that they are off to free climb The Nose of El Cap, the world's greatest trad route. Get outta town. Part 2 follows tomorrow.
JCPC 146 Alistair Lee
January 02, 2024 20:20 - 2 hours - 74.3 MBAl Lee’s films have documented UK trad climbing and climbers for over a decade. Movies such as On Sight, Climbing Blind, Blocheads and The Prophet have made the screen shine. This week let’s hear Al’s crack.
JCPC 145 Jam Crack Christmas Disco
December 23, 2023 18:50 - 1 hour - 142 MBYour annual sermon from the disco pulpit where the Jesus of beats and the Devil of groove battle it out in an epic dance to the death. Hot dog! Love's a-winnin!
JCPC 144 Zoe Wood
December 18, 2023 21:09 - 1 hour - 58.2 MB23-year-old Zoe was born into climbing in the hills and homes of North Wales where the slopes of Eryri turn their eyes towards the sea, This world was sketched in a recent film, Adra, which captured too her love for her home. Hear about it and her current career as a routesetter and a move to Sheffield. Many Cackles are had.
JCPC 143 Leo Houlding part 2
December 06, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 45 MBIn part 2 we hear about Leo’s attempt to push standards and adventure on El Cap, breathtaking stories of wingsuit flying, racing Jeremy Clarkson, then taking his skills to the arctic wilderness and finally bringing it closer to home.
JCPC 142 Leo Houlding part 1
December 05, 2023 21:56 - 1 hour - 47.7 MBLeo Houlding is one of the finest and boldest rock climbers Britain has produced. In this first of a two-part interview we follow his journey from early Gritstone and wild Welsh forays onto the huge canvas of Yosemite’s El Capitan. Stunning.
JCPC 141 Chris Bonington
November 20, 2023 17:58 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBChris Bonington’s name is synonymous with high altitude mountaineering the world over and he led the charge into the extreme during the sport’s most ambitious years. Alongside a successful and visionary career in the Himalayan giants from the 1960s through to the 1980s, CB communicated our sport to the armchair audience via his books and presentations. Hear all about his highlife.
JCPC 140 Russ Clune
November 10, 2023 10:58 - 1 hour - 51.6 MBRuss Clune has been more places, met more people and climbed more climbs than most of us put together. Hear this Gunks legend tell us about decades of climbing fun around the world, how things used to be and how things have changed. Old school guaranteed!
JCPC 139 Anna Hazelnutt
October 19, 2023 14:59 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBYouTuber, influencer and all-time trad slab moose Anna Hazelnutt takes us behind the scenes of video creation and climbing-wall superstardom. Legend.
JCPC 138 Tents Situation
October 06, 2023 12:03 - 46 minutes - 24.4 MBTwo stories. Niall Grimes reads his own Tents Situation and Tom LeFanu read The Waiting Game. Enjoy xx
JCPC 137 Didier Berthod
September 15, 2023 10:20 - 1 hour - 39.2 MBWho can forget Didier Berthod from his attempts on Cobra Crack in 2007's smash video, First Ascent. The Swiss-born crack maestro's life sure has taken some turns since then. Find out all.
JCPC 136 Burgess Book of Lies
September 05, 2023 16:35 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBAl Burgess reads wild stories of 1980s alpinism and all that that world entailed - fighting for your life and passing into death.
JCPC 135 Ruby Petch
July 28, 2023 11:51 - 1 hour - 38.1 MBAdventure boulderer Ruby Petch is one of the driving forces of the development of North Devon. By hiking pads, figuring tides, checking coves and sniffing out nooks Ruby and her small band of pad pirates have carried the proud Devon torch into new areas. Hear her crack here.
JCPC 134 Adam Ondra
July 13, 2023 15:31 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBThe world's best climber? Hell yeah! Adam Ondra gives us a tale of childhood, grades, Dawn Wall, comps and choss. Get in!
JCPC 133 Dean Fidelman Part 2
June 19, 2023 20:55 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBIn part 2 of Dean’s interview we chat about the Stonemasters’ reincarnation, the Stone Monkeys, who brought their heart and soul to Yosemite’s walls in the 1990s, and most particularly, Dean Potter.
JCPC 132 Dean Fidelman Part 1
June 19, 2023 20:38 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBDean Fidelman’s photographs captured the wild characters of the Stonemasters as they revolutionized the climbing of Southern California in the 1970s. John Long, John Bacher, Lynn Hill, John Yablonski and Dale Bard all sparkle in his stunning black and white images. Hear all about it in part 1 of Dean’s interview.
JCPC 131 Anna Wild
May 25, 2023 21:30 - 1 hour - 38.6 MBShe's ony 22 and she's already ticked many of the best 8as and 8bs in Yorkshire and has done 8b+ and Kilnsey, And she's a right laugh. Check out Anna Wild!
JCPC 130 Al Burgess Interview
May 05, 2023 08:55 - 2 hours - 64.9 MBThe Burgess twins were a legendary force in the mountaineering world of the 1970s and 80s. Al and his brother Adrian smashed full-force into the rollicking world of alpinism and high altitude, high attitude mountaineering. Full value crack, guaranteed.
JCPC 129 Hello Al Burgess
April 27, 2023 21:19 - 1 hour - 36.9 MBNiall Grimes introduces top Himalayan climber of the 70s, 80s andf 90s, Al Burgess.
JCPC 128 Liv Pearson
March 30, 2023 21:29 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBShe's the ultimate Little Person! She's the Little Pearson! She's Liv Pearson. South-Wales-based LP it a climbing nut and a bright star in the SW bouldering scene. Let's hear her crack!
JCPC 127 Will Bosi
March 14, 2023 17:09 - 2 hours - 75.3 MBThe young Scot owns the strongest fingers in the game and he has pointed them at many of the UK’s hardest routes, and they have quivered before his might. In this podcast we chat early days, Malcolm Smith, Adam Ondra, Burden of Dreams, Excalibur, his diet and much much more. Much fun!
JCPC 126 Honour of Being Human
February 27, 2023 18:17 - 32 minutes - 18 MBA reading of the classic caving story, The Honour of Being Human, about the tragic death of Neil Moss. Read by Anna Paxton.
JCPC 125 Charlie Torrance
February 20, 2023 21:17 - 57 minutes - 29.2 MBLlanberis local and climbing lifer Charlie Torrance talks about a terrible car accident and the months of recovery that have followed.
JCPC 124 MORE CUBBY! FU*CK YES!
January 08, 2023 22:57 - 2 hours - 76.6 MBGunshot say rewind, spin say the man forward, You want more Cubby you got more Cubby. More Brat, more ice, more Malc, more everything!
JCPC 123 Brian Hall
November 30, 2022 11:02 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBBrian Hall lived through one of the most exciting and deadly eras of Himalayan exploration during the 1970s and 80s. In his new book, High Risk, he reflects on the many friends he lost to this deadly game and seeks to hear the wisdom to be learned from these lives lived and lost.
JCPC 122 Ben Moon
November 10, 2022 10:11 - 2 hours - 66.2 MBBen Moon pushed climbing to new levels in the 1980s and 90s. He spearheaded sport climbing, training, and bouldering and was the defining image of our sport through his climbs, look and attitude. Hear all about it.
JCPC 121 Dave Bowes
October 21, 2022 07:59 - 2 hours - 72.6 MBThe past 15 years have seen Dave Bowes go on an cosmic journey which began in a terrible motorcycle accident. This led to Dave's brain becoming scrambled and then, through his journey in drugs, becoming unscrambled. Tune in!
JCPC 120 Dave 'Cubby' Cuthbertson
October 07, 2022 11:13 - 2 hours - 114 MBTop Scottish climber od the 1970s, 80s and 90s, Cubby pushed the standards in trad, sport and ice, including the UK's first 8a, with Requiem. The dude. This is hours of fun, this one.
JCPC 119 Jemma Powell
August 22, 2022 21:18 - 1 hour - 81.7 MBShe's only small, but she's great crack. Comp beast, trad-tinkler, climbing coach with lots of horse-power. Join us for a beer and a chat. Turns out she's a better climber than I had realised.
JCPC 118 Chris Doyle
July 08, 2022 12:29 - 1 hour - 79.7 MBThe Steven Spielberg of climbing looning, filmmaking fun freak, North Wales-based, Orme-loving, injured climbing lifer, Chris Doyle chats to Niall Grimes under a burned-out boulder problem.
JCPC 117 Teresa Coimbra
June 29, 2022 12:11 - 1 hour - 83.3 MBPortugese-born, 22-year-old Teresa tells us how climbing looks like from where she is sat, under a tree in Sheffield on a sunny Thursday. More tea, vicar?
JCPC 116 Franco Cookson
May 29, 2022 12:54 - 2 hours - 97.8 MBPin-sharp trad boiler and world-renowned anti-Varian Franco Cookson sits down with me in a pub and after a while we forgot what we came in for. Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please. I said two pints of lager and a packet of crisps please.
JCPC 115 Dan Varian
May 24, 2022 14:31 - 2 hours - 116 MBThe more northerly member of the Beastmaker duo sifts through his thoughts on his greatest bouldering addition, the mega-highball 8B+, Bombadil. Also much crack about the Prow at Kyloe-in-the-Woods.
JCPC 114 Zofia Reych
April 22, 2022 10:15 - 2 hours - 87 MBA super conversation with Zofia Reych, author of a forthcoming book, Born to Climb. We talk about her book, also about Fontainebleau, her Women's Bouldering Festival, the pandemic, autism and being gender queer. It's laugh-a-minute stuff!
JCPC 113 Jerry Moffatt
March 17, 2022 20:35 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBJerry Moffatt was widely considered to be the best climber in the world during his epic career spanning from the 1980s to the early 2000s. With hard first ascents and quick repeats on sport and trad and bouldering all round the globe, to epic soloing and competition success. Here hear some of his tales.
JCPC 112 Alain Robert
February 15, 2022 22:13 - 1 hour - 81.3 MBFrench climber, Alain Robert, has been one of the world’s most outrageous soloist for over 30 years. He has soloed numerous routes in the 8a – 8b range, most famously La Nuit du Lézards in Buoux in 1991 which stunned the climbing world. In the years since he has taken his skills and nerve to skyscraping heights by soloing many of the world’s tallest buildings. This lawbreaking pursuit has earned him great fame as well as his nickname, the French Spiderman.
JCPC 111 Mick Johnston
February 02, 2022 16:04 - 1 hour - 69 MBHe's an 80s trad boiler and Catwalk-walking sports cat. He's into telling you about his E7 when he's in the pub. He's got it in for Peakies. He's a right laugh. He's Mick Johnston.
JCPC 110 Ed February
January 18, 2022 21:15 - 1 hour - 75.8 MBEd February tells his story of growing up in South Africa, finding climbing and the barriers he faced as a black climber in in the Apartheid era of the 1970s. Then how his world opened up in the 1980s and beyond.
JCPC 109 Winter 8000: Broad Peak
January 09, 2022 16:51 - 44 minutes - 31.2 MBBernadette MacDonald reads another section from her book, Winter 8000. This time we look at the Polish mountaineer Maciej Berbeka's lethal affair with Broad Peak.
Chug my Bug and Crack my Jam
December 31, 2021 15:29 - 1 hour - 102 MBAnother mix of tunes, a bit of a disco party vibe.
A Sermon for Brother Andrew
December 31, 2021 15:11 - 34 minutes - 69.1 MBA random mix of some music
JCPC 107 Isabelle Faus
December 22, 2021 16:53 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBThis 28-year-old Chicago/Colorado climber is one of the world's top female boulderers, with multiple 8B+/V14s to her credit. Yet she flies under the radar, deciding to avoid the harsh glare of self promotion on social media. Let's hear what she's all about!
JCPC 106 Taylor Parsons
November 29, 2021 18:18 - 2 hours - 98.4 MBTaylor Parsons came to prominence in the climbing world about a decade ago when, as Chris Webb-Parsons, she was one of the world's strongest boulderers with a string of cutting-edge outdoor and competition performances. Parsons soon after fell out of climbing and, after years of dark struggles, has now transitioned into mum-of-three, Taylor. The story contains graphic detail and lots of laughs.
JCPC 106 Taylor P
November 29, 2021 18:18 - 2 hours - 98.4 MBTaylor came to prominence in the climbing world about a decade ago when, as Chris W-P she was one of the world's strongest boulderers with a string of cutting-edge outdoor and competition performances. TP soon after fell out of climbing and, after years of dark struggles, has now transitioned into mum-of-three, Taylor. The story contains graphic detail and lots of laughs.