9 episodes
The American Climbing Project Plug Tone Audio | Devin Dabney
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- Society & Culture
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4.8 • 53 Ratings
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This podcast addresses various social topics in climbing, with an intentional deviation from performance and training. The focuses will change, but will always center on vulnerability, candid conversation, and a desire to reflect the voice of everyday climbers.
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S1E8: The Price is White
In this episode, we welcome you to the only game show where America's most privileged people can speculate on what America's most marginalized people need! Listen in as our contestants debate how to get more Black people to climb, what role climbing gyms play in social issues, and what climbing gyms can actually do to address racism.
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S1E7: Walls are Meant for Colonizing
What is climbing culture, really? For this episode, we sit down with Kris Hampton to dissect what climbing media says about what climbing culture values, who it chooses to uplift (or not uplift), and whether walls really are meant for climbing.
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S1E6: When You‘re Black on Belay, Part II
For the second part of this series, we sit down with four Black climbers to discuss their experiences in the climbing community, how isolation affects them, and what they think it’ll take to make climbing more accessible.
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S1E5: When You‘re Black on Belay, Part I
Many know about Bear Grylls’s popular survivalist show “Man vs. Wild,” but not as many know about Bear’s Black brother—Gold Grylls—and his respective show, “Black Man vs. Wild.” Tune in as Gold Grylls deliberately ‘strands’ himself in homogenous, whitewashed locales and manages to get through the day without losing his shit—all to provide practical advice for Black people who may find themselves in similar situations unexpectedly.
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S1E4: Tales from the Crag
On this Halloween special, we present three terrifying tales that are sure to make you shake in your harness. Listen with the lights off, if you dare.
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S1E3: Now That‘s What I Call Racism!
Why were no Black people freeing El Cap in the '60s? Well, they were still thinking about a different kind of freedom.
We sit down with James Mower to discuss how racism isn't just a burning cross, and how systemic racism has affected climbing's development in America.
Customer Reviews
My only beef:
Right after you say it’s all Black voices in the beginning of episode 6, you used a sample of The Ancient One from Dr. Strange saying “It’s not about you”. Tilda Swinton is as Black as she is an ancient Tibetan man. But seriously, this is a great podcast. Funny, incisive and sounds great. Dom could be on any show for anything and I’d listen.
Fighting Hate with More Hate
This has to be the most racist climbing podcast in existence! When people say the South is full of racism, it’s usually just a few liberal kids with a hypocritical podcast.
Well produced but intentionally hurtful
Appears to be designed solely to belittle people who do not fit into the hosts identity boxes. Belittling is not a way to build, maintain or improve a community. Factually inaccurate in many cases. The lead host has publicly stated this podcast is designed to offend. Intentionally Caustic. The host is trying to get famous by canceling climbing athletes. He is harming people and the community trying to make controversy and division. Ignore this hate and listen to more positive pods. The host should learn how to be a positive change maker from the likes of Aman Anderson. This podcast is just pure race based hate.