Episode 22: Fastest Known Times with Jason Hardrath
Jason Hardrath is a physical education teacher at Bonanza Elementary and a mountaineer known for tackling difficult mountaineering challenges in record times. He has a goal to complete 100 of these “fastest known times”, or FKTs, and it over 3/4th of the way there.
Climbing the Washington Volcanoes
New Digital Climbing Guide on FATMAP In episode 5 of the podcast, I interviewed Misha Gopaul, co-founder of the 3D mapping platform FATMAP. The platform aims to provide high-quality guidebook entries with 3D visualizations of routes and terrain. To test the community-based features of the platform, I created a virtual guidebook for the classic (and theoretically easiest) […]
Episode 4: Explorer’s Grand Slam with Lei Wang
In this episode I chat with Lei Wang, who in 2010 became the first Asian American and first Chinese woman to complete the Explorer’s Grand Slam, a mountaineering feat that involves reaching the summit of the highest peaks on each continent as well as reaching the North and South poles.