Live It Up with Mountain Life

We catch up with professional backcountry skier Tatum Monod to talk about hunting, fishing, baking pies, growing up in a ski shop, colour-coordinated closets and her latest ski film project Passage, available now on Red Bull TV.

Host: Feet Banks

To celebrate the end of 2021 we're taking it back to the old school to talk ski films with legendary Canadian filmmaker Christian Begin and Heavy Hitting director Travis Tetreault. Both celebrated notable anniversaries of key films in their careers this year (25 and 20 years), and both have lots to say about the old ways, the ski bum lifestyle and why they miss VHS.
Parental Advisory: there are a couple of instances of strong language and concepts in this episode so if you rock a hyper-protective parenting style maybe give this one a listen before you let your youngest kids drop in.

Host: Feet Banks

As ski season begins, British Columbia is reeling in a state of weather-induced emergency and even the crustiest deniers are starting to talk about the real effects of the climate crisis. Ian McIntosh has long been an advocate for climate action, but he's also veteran skier with roots in racing and freeski comps, and a film and ski career that has spanned almost two decades and taken Ian to some of the world's highest mountain ranges. Who better to kick off the official start of ski season?

Host: Feet Banks

It's time to talk art with contemporary Indigenous artist Levi Nelson. Coming from the Lil'wat Nation in southwestern British Columbia, Levi is one of the most exciting artists in Canada today and Feet caught up with him just before Levi took off to start his Master's degree at Columbia University in New York City. 

Host: Feet Banks

Sarah Bulford (AKA @mountaindarlin) traded her lifetime of self-propelled adventure for an enduro dirtbike and never looked back. But with each new milestone of success, her social media platforms got more and more toxic. Feet Banks sits down with Sarah to talk braap babes, toxic masculinity and the real value of free advice. 

Is there a danger in turning what you love into what you do for a living? Is the outdoor industry at risk of losing the fun in all that seriousness? Not if you're Brett Tippie there isn't. Host Feet Banks sits down with the legend of two sports—who's been a professional athlete for over three decades—to talk about art, shredding, e-bikes, jokes and the new Brett Tippie Podcast. Join the fun!

Host: Feet Banks

Jon Turk earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1971 and was nominated by National Geographic as one of the Top Ten Adventurers of the Year in 2012.  Between those bookends, he co-authored the first college-level environmental science textbook in North America, (plus 35 other texts) and five books about his many adventures—which include kayaking around Cape Horn and across the North Pacific from Japan to Alaska, a circumnavigation of Ellesmere Island, and numerous first ski descents and rock climbing ascents around the globe. With his (allegedly last) book Tracking Lions, Myth and Wilderness in Samburu hitting stores this September, Mountain Life caught up with Jon to talk about dirtbags, the power of nature, living in the moment, and how the stories we tell, and are told, have shaped human history.

For our inaugural foray into living it up on the airwaves, Mountain Life Coast Mountains editor Feet Banks sits down with legendary climber/alpinist Tim Emmett to talk about getting outside, getting gnarly, knowing when to pull back from a goal, and why having a kid changes the game. So sharpen those edges and oil those chains, it's time to Live it Up.