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Podcast: Ben Moon

© Pierre Ropero

The Ledge has published a podcast with Ben Moon, a climbing legend who really shouldn't need an introduction, especially not on a British website.

This first 75 min episode is about things like Hubble, how climbing has changed and evolved, chipping, grades, classic routes and style, in- and outdoor climbing, training... and quite a lot more.

And yes, I'm blowing my own horn here as I'm very much part of this, but hopefully it could be of interest regardless.

The Ledge - a climbing life podcast  © Pierre Ropero
The Ledge - a climbing life podcast
© Pierre Ropero


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14 Apr, 2015
Haven't had time to listen to it all, but what I did hear sounds like a great piece of work, well done Bjorn. Ben has started publishing his training diary for 1990 on his website in the run up to the 25th anniversary of the FA of Hubble and the first 9A. Looks like it took 8 weeks from injury to train back up for the FA. The first two week section is full of laps on Raven Tor classics, bouldering at Stoney and Cressbrook Dale, and at home on the proto Moon Board on the indoor version of Hubble. No indoor training/climbing walls as we know them yet!
14 Apr, 2015
Nice interview with Ben talking a lot of sense.
14 Apr, 2015
>"Nice interview with Ben talking a lot of sense." Comes across as a sound guy. From all the old videos I've seen, he always appeared a bit aloof. Perhaps not in an "other planet" Dawes like way, but just on a different page to everyone else. I have to say though, in the POD cast, there did seem to be a lot of all the normal human contradictions you get when you hear someone speak at length on questions to which they haven't really had a chance to think through and form their real opinion. He seemed to have the ability to simultaneously host opposing views or perhaps, I just need to listen again. :)
15 Apr, 2015
Not had a chance to listen to the podcast yet but wanted to second the quality of the Enormocast (currently up to 78 interviews with the worlds climbing elite). A recent interview with Stevie Haston might interest a few on here.
16 Apr, 2015
Anyone know if there's an RSS feed for these podcasts? I'd like to subscribe via my podcast app so I can listen in the car, etc.
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