Author: Chris Kalous

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Episode 172: Mark Twight – Still Coming Down Part 2.

MFT on Nanga Parbat by Barry Blanchard, MFT by Nikki Smith, MFT on gravel by Dan Krauss

On Episode 172 of the Enormocast, we continue to part 2 of a conversation with Alpinist Mark Twight. The Royal We highly recommends that one has a listen to Part 1 first, but this second half does stand on its own especially if you’re already familiar with Mark’s exploits in Chamonix and on Nanga Parbat. On this installment, Mark switches to tales from Alaska, and then we go deep into what makes Mark tick, his thoughts on his legacy, and what its like to lose so many friends to the savage arena on the mountains.

Episode 171: Mark Twight – Still Coming Down Part 1.

Nonprophet.media and Mark’s New Book: REFUGE.

Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber.

  • Kiss or Kill cover by Brooks Freehill
  • MFT by Nikki Smith
  • MFT and Chris Kalous by Delila Causevic
  • MFT signs his book REFUGE by Trevor Thompson
  • Jason Mamoa and MFT by Delila Causevic
  • Chris Kalous by MFT
  • Bouchard, Surrette, Franklin, Twight, Rackcliff
  • Scott Backes and MFT after Deprivation by Michael Kennedy
  • Randy Rackcliff below Reality Bath by MFT
  • MFT on Mt Hunter by Scott Backes
  • MFT on Nanga Parbat by Barry Blanchard
  • MFT on Slovak Direct by Steve House
  • MFT, Scott Backes, Steve House by Lisa Bouchard
  • MFT by Dan Krauss

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Episode 171: Mark Twight – Still Coming Down Part 1.

L: MFT signing REFUGE (Trevor Thompson). M: MFT on Mt Hunter (Scott Backes). R: Kiss or Kill Cover (Brooks Freehill).

On Episode 171, I sit down in the Dissect Podcast studio with former alpinist, Mark Twight, for part 1 of our talk from February 2019. Though Mark gave up extreme alpinism around 2000, his attitude, outlook, and philosophy are still that of a climber. In this EPIC late night and whiskey-fueled interview, Mark recounts a career in the mountains that happened two decades ago, but is still reverberating in his own psyche and with young alpinists today. Like a drug addict or a rock star, Twight battled with the prospect of coming down from those heights to the trivia and monotony of the valley. Nearly 20 years out from his last great climb and after many other incredible accomplishments, Mark only recently has found some peace without climbing.

Nonprophet.media and Mark’s New Book: REFUGE.

Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber.

Episode 172: Mark Twight – Still Coming Down Part 2

  • MFT and Chris Kalous by Delila Causevic
  • Chris Kalous by MFT
  • Jason Mamoa and MFT by Delila Causevic
  • MFT by Nikki Smith
  • MFT signs his book REFUGE by Trevor Thompson
  • MFT, Scott Backes, Steve House by Lisa Bouchard
  • MFT on Mt Hunter by Scott Backes
  • MFT on Nanga Parbat by Barry Blanchard
  • MFT on Slovak Direct by Steve House
  • Scott Backes and MFT after Deprivation by Michael Kennedy
  • Randy Rackcliff below Reality Bath by MFT
  • Kiss or Kill cover by Brooks Freehill
  • MFT by Dan Krauss
  • Bouchard, Surrette, Franklin, Twight, Rackcliff

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BandWagon Episode: REBROADCAST Alex Honnold from 2017.

On this special Episode, I whip those stallions pulling the Free Solo bandwagon and rebroadcast Alex Honnold’s interview from 2017 – just a few weeks out from his free solo of the FreeRider on El Capitan in Yosemite. Not just a cynical grab at downloads, when I re-listened this interview for myself, I was newly fascinated by Alex Honnold after now having seen Free Solo the movie. Before the hype, before the Oscar, there was just an over-stoked climber on top of the world. Its quaint how naive we were about the mainstream not really noticing what Alex had done.

Alex’s First Enormocast from 2013

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