Mountain Whispers

In this episode, I chat to Marie-France Roy, pro snowboarder and environmental activist. We chat about:

• Marie-France's journey to going Pro + Whistler mountain culture in the early 2000's that enabled it
• Making decisions in the backcountry, stories of risk and injury
• Taking a stand for the environment and letting go of the expectation that you have to be perfect to be an advocate

Links mentioned in the conversation:

• More on Marie-France's cob-house on the West Coast of Vancouver Island
• Marie-France's documentary The Little Things - On environmentally conscious riders who are inspirational through their riding, as well as their sustainable ways of living and thinking. 
• Protect Our Winters Canada
• Dispatch from Fairy Creek - the protests against the logging of old-growth forests on Vancouver Island

You can find more of Marie-France on Instagram @mariefranceroy.

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In this episode I chat to Brian Hockenstein, mountain filmaker and director of The Radicals documentary.

In our conversation we chat about:

• How he fell in love with the mountains, his move to Whistler in the early 20's, and his entrance into filmmaking through the pursuit of stoke
• How The Radicals came to be and how the magic of outdoors calls us to take action for the environment
• His latest film project Resilience and how confronting tragedy and our own mortality can help us make the most of our limited time on this earth

You can find Brian on Instagram at @brianhockenstein and Tim at @timstewnz.

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In this episode, I chat to James Farr, mountain guide and outdoor educator based in Nairobi, Kenya. We chat about growing up in East Africa, the magic & aesthetic of the mountains, and how adventure creates a container for self-transformation.

Connect with James' work at: https://www.kileleproject.com/

Other references in this episode:

• NOLS Outdoor leadership School
• Soulcraft by Bill Plotkin
• Bone Games by Rob Schultheis

In this episode, I chat to Kristof Lenart, endurance athlete and founder of the Vancouver Psychedelic Society. We chat about trail running, the mind-altering runner's high, and how this state of consciousness can be elevated through the responsible use of LSD.

Links from the episode

• Meetup page for Vancouver Psychedelic Society
• The book Bone Games: Extreme Sports, Shamanism, Zen, and the Search for Transcendence, by Rob Schultheis
• Find more of Kristof at https://www.kristoflenart.com/

In this episode, I chat to Tyson Adams about the lessons and wisdom he's learned from the outdoors. In our conversation, we talk about how Tyson finds flow in the outdoors, as well as through dedicated practice.

A lot of topics are covered in this episode including

• The vagus nerve and the effect it has on our physiology
• Taoist tradition around meditation and perineum squeezes
• Bill Plotkin and combining depth psychology with wilderness practice
• Brain wave frequencies & how they influence flow states

You can learn more about Tyson and his upcoming course on Instagram: @tysonadams_ , or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adams.tyson

Find Tim on Instagram: @timstewnz

Mitchell Scott is one of the co-founders of Mountain Culture Group, the publisher of Kootenay Mountain Culture and Coast Mountain Culture Magazines. In this episode Mitchell shares his wisdom and insight on what he's learnt from the outdoors including:

• How mountain sports and British Columbia as a destination has evolved over the last 20 years
• The story of how Kootenay Mountain Culture first got off the ground
• Flow states and how connection with nature that comes from mountain sports, helps us better drop into flow
• Mitchell's Experience with taking risks, dealing with fear, and making gut decisions on when to take, or skip the gnarly line

If you enjoyed this episode, share it with a friend, or hit me up directly. Find me on Instagram @timstewnz.

In this conversation, I speak with Jordan Lenham. Jordan is a climber, ultra-marathon runner, backcountry split-boarder, and all-around badass mountain dude.

We chat about how he got into these sports, the nature of guiding, what's it's like to mix your passion with your day-job, as well as some of the spicy expeditions and adventures he's completed.

You can connect further with Jordan here: http://strikerguiding.com/

Welcome to the first episode of Mountain Whispers Podcast! Conversations on the deeper lessons that we learn from the outdoors.

In this episode, I speak to Johnny Amberg. Johnny is a base jumper and entrepreneur based out of Lauterbrunnen Switzerland.

In this conversation gets into a bunch of the topics I'm most passionate about:

• How he got into the sport/discipline of BASE jumping
• What flow states mean to him, his rituals for getting into flow
• What risk looks like in BASE, how he managed fear, risk, and death
• A bunch of other lessons he's learned from his life of adventure

Johnny's hostel in Lauterbrunnen Switzerland: https://www.instagram.com/alpinebasehostel/?igshid=si1wpfmzqq3e

Johnny's Youtube (he's not super active on socials): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW6_2fLO7NGNA-mENtoH8yQ

What is Mountain Whispers? In this intro I explain why I started this project.