Jam Crack - The Niall Grimes Climbing Podcast
Niall Grimes
Show overview
Jam Crack - The Niall Grimes Climbing Podcast has been publishing since 2015, and across the 11 years since has built a catalogue of 217 episodes. That works out to roughly 280 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a monthly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h and 1h 36m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. Roughly 49% of episodes carry an explicit flag from the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Sports show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 5 days ago, with 18 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2024, with 26 episodes published. Published by Niall Grimes.
From the publisher
Irish / Sheffield climber and author Niall Grimes in conversation with top dogs, cool cats and committed crag rats from the neighbourhood and the international climbing scene. Also classic climbing stories read aloud for your aural pleasure. Mmmmmmm! See more at http://www.niallgrimes.com
Latest Episodes
View all 217 episodesJCPC 212 James McHaffie part 2 - Extreme Rocker
JCPC 211 James MacHaffie pt1 The Dark Lord of Trad
JCPC 210 Rachel Pearce part 2 - The Indan Face and Me
JCPC 209 Rachel Pearce - Journey to the Indian Face part 1
JCPC 208 Steve bancroft - Gritstone Renaissance Man
JCPC 207 - ClimbFestering
JCPC 206 Tom Livingstone
JCPC 205 Tina Breslin - Peace of Mind
JCPC 204 Ascent: The Rise of British Rock Climbing
JCPC 203 Jason Pickles part 2 - Potter, Leo, Honnold and me.
JCPC 202 Jason Pickles pt 1 - Dean Potter, Honnold, Leo and me
JCPC 201 Lena Drapella
JCPC 200 What Climbing has Taught Me
S2 Ep 199JCPC 199 Eben Muse - Landscape, Language and the Llanberis Pass
Welsh-born Eben is passionate about wild places and his and others' rights to be there. We chat about his Welsh childhood and how that and the outdoors have shaped him. Together we look to understand the cultural and social world of North Wales in the face of it's huge popularity with visitors.
S2 Ep 198JCPC 198 Adam Ondra - more milk from the GOAT part 2
Second part of this lovely chat with the greatest climber who has ever lived. In this one we dig deep into his flashing of 8C boulder problems, thoughts on going harder again and about climbers who really impress him.
JCPC 197 Adam Ondra - More milk from the GOAT part 1
The world's greatest climber returns to the show to talk Olympics, B.I.G, YouTube, bouldering and more.
S2 Ep 196JCPC 196 Ben Bransby part 2
Part 2 of the Ben Bransby chat. Talking about losing his dad on an expedition, Patagonia, Leeds, Chris Wentworth, family and mental illness, not climbing all of Stanage. Brilliant.
S2 Ep 195JCPC 195 Ben Bransby part 1
Trad master, old-school hone and all out legend Ben Bransby spills his bean. Ben pushed the cutting-edge of trad climbing, going ground-up on E9 when E9 was top of the pops. His easy attitude and spirited approach made his ascents so much more then numbers alone could tell. Cool guy, check it out.
S2 Ep 194JCOPC 194 Mat Wright
Elite climber Mat Wright is cut from a different cloth than your average professional crimp-jockey. We hear about Mat's journey from a sometimes-fractious childhood all the way to 9a, 8C and E11 (not really). Mat opens up about some frisky situations along the way to enlightenment. Much crack.
S2 Ep 193Jam Crack Archives: The View from Dead Horse Point
A classic Jam Crack story episode from 2016. Chris Schulte reads the classic tale of climbing exploration in the American desert. Pure gold.