by Chris Kalous
With 35 years of climbing experience and going on 14 years behind the mic, Chris Kalous brings interviews, tributes, discussion, tears, and lots of laughs from the full breadth of the climbing zeitgeist. Rock climbing, bigwall (big wall?) climbing, alpinism, ice climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing. If it’s climbing related, it’s here. In the words of Alex Honnold, “If you are a climber, you pretty much have to do the Enormocast.”
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April 4, 2025
On Episode 303 of the Enormocast I sit down with one of the most compelling and somewhat enigmatic climbers of our times: <a href="https://explorersweb.com/sean-villanueva-odriscoll-and-the-patagonia-attitude/">Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll</a>. It was a multi-year dance, but we finally sat down puss-a-puss in the Canadian Rockies at the <a href="https://www.banffcentre.ca/banffmountainfestival/tour">Banff Mountain Film Festival</a>. Sean is known for his big wall antics across the globe, often in the company of his broer van een andere moeder, <a href="https://enormocast.com/2024/05/enormocast-285-nico-favresse-mad-to-live/">Nico Favresse</a>. But that bright and shiny sense of humor belies the fire and climbing beast that Sean can muster when the going gets tough, cold, and seemingly insurmountable. We discuss his Belgian, Irish, Spanish multi-cultural background and what his Irish roots in particular mean to him. Sean also fills us in on his beginnings, partnerships, forced COVID retreat in El Chaltén, Greenland, sea sickness, meditation, philosophy and more. And of course, I didn’t unlash him from his seat until we got some Irish tin whistle. I mean, come on!<a href="https://reelrocktour.com/pages/tour-calendar">Riders on the Storm and Reel Rock 19</a><a href="https://enormocast.com/2022/01/enormocast-234-siebe-vanhee-the-talisman/">Sean’s mentee Siebe Vanhee on the Enormocast</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehCHyeMlxB4&t=452s">Wide Boy plus Sean in Patagonia</a>
March 11, 2025
Episode 302 of the Enormocast is the annual airing of grievances in climbing: the laments, the beefs, and the sad truths of the dumb shit we do as climbers. What was formerly known as Taps is now Last Rites. Once again, this year’s slam evolves from listeners’ calls. <a href="https://www.theprojectmagazine.com/features/2019/1/27/the-day-i-learned-my-cousin-is-a-professional-climber">Andy Salo</a>, <a href="https://eveningsends.com/author/andrewbisharat/">Andrew Bisharat</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2idAcKEYVkE">Mary “Token girl” Harlan</a> join Chris to dole out advice, ethics, and perform <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_rites">last rites</a> for the dying trends in climbing we’d like to see live on. We also mark a few things for extermination. <a href="https://www.thestruggleclimbingshow.com/">Ryan Devlin of the Struggle Podcast</a> stops by, too. On this year’s docket: chalkbag carabiner (again), bitchy looks and girl-on-girl side-eye, downgraders, soft routes in the gym, trad-dads, and much more. Finally, we propose our start-up idea: need a belay on the proj and all your bros are out golfing? Call a Beluber. As usual, the laughs come fast and furious, but leave your sensitivities at the door because one of your sacred cows is likely headed to the butcher.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQqgD97irTE">Last Rites by Ingested</a> (<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=ingested+tour+dates&rlz=1C1ONGR_enUS935US935&oq=ingested+tour+dates&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yCAgCEAAYFhgeMg0IAxAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMgoIBBAAGKIEGIkFMgoIBRAAGIAEGKIE0gEIMzU0MGoxajeoAgiwAgHxBQbHp1E1NlOL&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8">on tour</a>)<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uUTCRLbG5I">Last Rites by Omen</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEFZsUet1SU">Last Rites by Merciful Fate</a>
February 5, 2025
All photos Jesse HueyOn Episode 301 of the Enormocast, I sit down in a posh hotel in Squamish, BC, with alpinist <a href="https://www.instagram.com/quentinclimbing/">Quentin Roberts</a>. We met up at the <a href="https://gripped.com/profiles/every-climber-should-attend-the-2024-arcteryx-climb-academy/">Arc’teryx Academy</a> in August 2024 on a rainy day to talk about Quentin’s life as a climber. Quentin grew up attending boarding schools in several countries and despite not fitting in with the style of education, he managed to find climbing and skateboarding. In his teens, Quentin focussed on hard sport climbing before the bug of alpinism took control after finishing high school in Vancouver. In his 20s, Roberts racked up standout ascents like the third ascent of Canadian Route on Cerro Fitz Roy, the first ascent of <a href="https://alpinist.com/newswire/canadians-free-climb-chacrarajus-east-face-headwall-with-the-devils-reach-around/">The Devil’s Reacharound</a> on Chacraraju Este in the Cordillera Blanca, and the first ascent of <a href="https://gripped.com/news/new-rockies-alpine-route-mount-tuzo/attachment/image3-2-2/">Hiding in Plain Sight</a> in the Canadian Rockies. Somewhere in there, soloing took hold culminating (so far) in a <a href="https://gripped.com/201304/quentin-lindfield-roberts-solos-striving-for-the-moon-vi/">solo ascent of Striving for the Moon</a> on Mt. Temple in the Canadian Rockies. Now in his 30s, and after years of expedition climbing, Quentin is ready to reflect on some close calls, some lost friends, and his future dancing on the razor’s edge. <br /> <br />
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