Brit Rock Film Tour 2021
A few months back I had a message out of the blue from Alastair Lee. Through his company Posing Productions he’s responsible for the Brit Rock Film Tour, showcasing his fantastic cinematic films. This...
A few months back I had a message out of the blue from Alastair Lee. Through his company Posing Productions he’s responsible for the Brit Rock Film Tour, showcasing his fantastic cinematic films. This...
The whims and motivations of climbers really are another world to the person in the street. Understanding them is crossing a threshold, it requires a certain suspension of disbelief to start to see the...
This week I had a chat with Climbing on the Bookshelf about some of my favourite climbing books. These included Hard Rock and the awesome Let’s Go Climbing, by Colin Kirkus.
If you had to select your late 90s dream team for a British, all-female Himalayan big wall trip, you couldn’t go far wrong with this one. Glenda Huxter was onsighting E7, Kath Pyke had...
I get to interview a lot of people about their climbing adventures. One thing I never ask them directly is why they do it. That just seems like such a basic question. George Mallory...
I’ve read Katherine Schirrmacher’s blog for years, and she’s unusually good at expressing all of those little things that can affect your motivation or self belief. In this episode she talks about finding the balance
Factor Two / News / Off Belay
by Wil Treasure · Published February 19, 2021 · Last modified March 15, 2021
Factor Two was longlisted in the International Sports Press Association’s Awards for Audio this year.
There are also 3 other climbing stories which were shortlisted in the writing categories.
Factor Two has been shortlisted in the Publisher Podcast Awards along with the likes of The Telegraph, New Scientist, The Big Issue, Penguin Random House and more. How cool is that? Our entry included...
In the spring of 1968 a San Francisco filmmaker, Fred Padula, drove into the Yosemite Valley and gazed up at El Capitan. He was going to make a film about climbing The Nose. Fred wasn’t a climber, but that was the least of his problems in this saga.
When it was released in 1998, Hard Grit gave us an insight into something we didn’t often see – the actual ascents of the hardest, most dangerous lines on grit.
At Factor Two we like to tell climbing stories a little differently. Every episode is a little piece of cinema for your ears. We tell the big stories, with big characters, but we’re also interested in the minutiae of the climbing world and the people that are a part of it.
We’ve told stories about grief and joy, speed records and rescues, identity and losing yourself, and it’s all led us back to basics with our new series.
In Ideas That Changed Climbing we’re telling the story of how climbing became the sport it is today, one idea at a time.