Long transfers to the valley, early lift queues, summer training on the home trainer: mountain podcasts fill the hours when you cannot be on snow or rock. This selection gathers fifty real, currently published shows covering ski resorts and racing, snowboarding, backcountry travel and avalanche safety, alpinism and wider outdoor adventure. It is English-language first, with a final section devoted to French, German and Italian alpine shows for those who want to hear the Alps in their own languages. Every entry below points to the show's own site or to a confirmed listing page.
Ski culture, resorts and mountain travel
1. The Ski Podcast — Iain Martin's long-running UK show, with more than 300 episodes built around resort deep-dives (Chamonix, Verbier, Champoluc), snow reports, kit talk and interviews with guides, journalists and mountain professionals. It is one of the very few English shows that treats the European Alps as its home turf rather than an exotic trip. theskipodcast.com
2. The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast — Stuart Winchester interviews the people who actually run lift-served skiing: ski area general managers, pass-programme executives, lift engineers and owners of small independent hills. Episodes are long, business-minded and unusually well briefed on ownership, snowmaking and expansion plans. stormskiing.com
3. The Blister Podcast — The conversation arm of the Blister gear-review operation, with wide-ranging talks with athletes, authors, designers and outdoor-industry figures about mountain culture, film, books and industry news. Useful when you want context rather than a spec sheet. blisterreview.com
4. The Powell Movement — Host Mike Powell, who spent eighteen years at K2, interviews pro skiers, snowboarders, skaters and action-sports executives about how careers in the industry are actually built. Strong on the backstory of brands, sponsorship and ski-film history. thepowellmovement.com
5. Low Pressure Podcast — Founded and hosted by Mark Warner, it bills itself as skiing's first podcast and has a deep archive of interviews with Freeride World Tour athletes, Olympic medallists, filmmakers and industry insiders. Warner also hosts the Freeride World Tour podcast.
6. The Mayrand Podcast — Skier and filmmaker Xavier Mayrand hosts conversations about skiing, life and everything in between, with freestyle and big-mountain guests including Alex Hall, Henrik Harlaut and Kaya Turski. Loose, first-person and closer to park and competition culture than to resort reporting. mayrandpodcast.com
7. Last Chair: The Ski Utah Podcast — Ski Utah's destination podcast, hosted by Tom Kelly, dedicating each episode to a Utah mountain, canyon or resort figure. A good model of what a well-made destination podcast sounds like if you are planning a trip. skiutah.com
8. Legends of Lake Louise — Lake Louise Ski Resort's own series, telling the history and characters of the Alberta resort and its World Cup downhill through interviews with locals, patrollers and racers. Short, resort-specific listening. skilouise.com
9. The Ski Moms Podcast — Sarah Butler and Nicole Feliciano run a weekly winter show about skiing with a family: trip logistics, kids' gear, lessons, and interviews with industry insiders and experienced mountain mothers. It sits alongside a large online community of the same name. theskimoms.co
Ski racing, instruction and the snowsports industry
10. The Ski Racing Podcast — Hosted by former World Cup racer and Olympian Ed Drake with ski expert Tord Nilson, it breaks down how each men's and women's World Cup race was won and brings in guests on the season's running stories.
11. Skiing is Believing — Matt Garcka and Alan Rigg publish twice a week through the FIS Alpine World Cup season, mixing race review with athlete interviews (Filip Zubčić and Alex Vinatzer among them). Affiliated with Ski Racing Media. skiracing.com
12. Alpine Pulse — Commentator Nick Fellows goes past the results sheet to profile the people around the Audi FIS Ski World Cup: racers, coaches and the travelling circus that follows them from Sölden to the spring finals.
13. The Next Turn — Martin Wilson's interview show on skiing, ski racing and sport more broadly, with athletes, coaches and administrators discussing pathways, development and where snowsports are heading.
14. American Downhillers — Presented by Ski Racing Media, with Olympians Doug Lewis, AJ Kitt, Daron Rahlves and Marco Sullivan reacting to each World Cup downhill stop from the point of view of people who raced them. skiracing.com
15. Nordic Nation — FasterSkier's podcast strand covering cross-country skiing: World Cup and national-team athletes, coaches, wax technicians and the culture of Nordic racing in North America and Scandinavia. fasterskier.com
16. First Chair: The PSIA-AASI Podcast — The podcast of the American ski and snowboard instructors' association, with technique discussion, certification advice and stories from alpine, Nordic, snowboard and adaptive instructors. Made for teaching professionals but useful to any skier working on technique. thesnowpros.org
17. Next Level Skiing — Produced by custom ski maker Wagner Skis and hosted by veteran ski journalist Jason Blevins, who interviews ski-industry figures and coaches about ski design, technique and how to get better without moving to a ski town. Episodes cluster around the start of the season. wagnerskis.libsyn.com
Snowboarding, freeride and telemark
18. The Bomb Hole — Pro snowboarder Chris Grenier and co-host E-Stone run very long, very loose interviews with snowboarding's biggest names, past guests including Jeremy Jones, Jamie Anderson and Elena Hight. Save these for the drive to the resort: episodes routinely run past two hours. thebombhole.com
19. FNRad Snowboarding Podcast — A weekly interview show that drops new episodes every Wednesday from November through April, working through riders, filmers and shop people from across the snowboard scene.
20. The Monday M.A.S.S. — Chris Coté and Todd Richards deliver rapid-fire action-sports news covering snowboarding alongside surfing and skating, with guests and a heavy dose of contest commentary. Todd Richards' Olympic halfpipe background shows in the snowboard segments. mondaymass.libsyn.com
21. Wild Cannons — A Pacific Northwest snowboard-culture podcast that deliberately wanders off-piste into what riders do the rest of the year — fishing, moto, mountain biking — with guests drawn from the regional scene.
22. Snowboard Magazine podcasts — The audio hub of Snowboard Magazine, collecting the title's interview and news shows in one place. A good entry point if you want editorial snowboard coverage rather than a single host's voice. snowboardmag.com
23. The Freeheel Life Podcast — Josh Madsen's show is the reference for telemark skiing: free-heel technique, boot and binding developments, telemark racing and the small community that keeps the discipline alive. freeheellife.com
24. Out of Bounds — Adam Jaber's flagship show inside the Out Of Collective network of outdoor podcasts, interviewing athletes, founders and CEOs about how the snow and outdoor industries work. outofpodcast.com
25. Care Less, Do More — Professional skier Michelle Parker's show on the same network, built around conversations with athletes and friends about big-mountain skiing, risk, motivation and life around a ski career.
Backcountry, ski touring and avalanche safety
26. Totally Deep Backcountry Skiing Podcast — Doug Stenclik and Randy Young of Cripple Creek Backcountry cover uphill and backcountry skiing in detail: touring gear, skinning technique, snowpack discussion and interviews with guides and figures such as guidebook author Lou Dawson. cripplecreekbc.com
27. The Avalanche Hour — Interviews with forecasters, patrollers, guides and snow scientists about avalanche work and research, aimed at the professional snow-safety community but accessible to serious recreational tourers. theavalanchehour.com
28. Send and Return: The BCA Avalanche Safety Podcast — Created by Backcountry Access co-founder Bruce Edgerly, focused on avalanche safety practice and the equipment side of it: transceivers, airbags, rescue drills and decision-making.
29. Utah Avalanche Center Podcast — Benjamin Bombard and forecaster Drew Hardesty discuss snowpack, avalanche forecasting and the human factors behind accidents, in a format that mixes reporting with long-form interviews.
30. Out and Back — The Gaia GPS podcast, covering navigation, route planning, winter travel and avalanche topics, including an episode with snow-science author Bruce Tremper. Practical listening before a ski-touring season.
31. The Firn Line — A narrative, documentary-style series on mountaineering and ski mountaineering, built from first-person accounts of expeditions and Alaskan climbing rather than studio chat. thefirnline.com
32. GEAR:30 — Blister's dedicated gear podcast, working through skis, boots, bindings, apparel and touring kit with the reviewers who test them. The place to go before committing to a new setup.
33. Uphill Athlete Podcast — The coaching platform's show on endurance training for mountain sport: aerobic base building, altitude, strength work and nutrition for ski mountaineering, alpinism and long mountain days. uphillathlete.com
Climbing, alpinism and adventure storytelling
34. The Sharp End — Ashley Saupe builds each episode around a real accident, drawing on the American Alpine Club's Accidents in North American Climbing reports and interviewing the people involved. Uncomfortable and genuinely instructive. thesharpendpodcast.com
35. The Enormocast — Chris Kalous, based in Carbondale, Colorado, has been recording long unhurried interviews with notable climbers for years, ranging across trad, alpine and the social history of the sport. enormocast.com
36. The Cutting Edge — The American Alpine Club's expedition podcast, hosted by filmmaker Jim Aikman, which interviews teams straight after hard alpine ascents and sets each climb in its historical context. The closest thing to an audio American Alpine Journal. americanalpineclub.org
37. Climbing Gold — Alex Honnold's interview series, which has featured Chris Sharma, Emily Harrington and Tommy Caldwell, mixing career retrospectives with discussion of risk and motivation. climbinggold.com
38. The Nugget Climbing Podcast — Steven Dimmitt's long-form interviews with climbers, coaches and physios, digging into training methodology, injury and mindset in more technical detail than most climbing shows. thenuggetclimbing.com
39. TrainingBeta Podcast — Hosted by climber and nutritionist Neely Quinn, focused on how to train for climbing: periodisation, fingerboarding, diet, injury rehabilitation and the mental side of performance. trainingbeta.com
40. The Dirtbag Diaries — Fitz Cahall's produced storytelling series, one of the oldest in the outdoor space, telling short documentary stories about climbers, skiers and wanderers rather than running interviews. dirtbagdiaries.com
41. Outside/In — New Hampshire Public Radio's show about the natural world and how people use it, with reported episodes on mountains, snow, land use and outdoor recreation. Public-radio production values applied to outdoor subjects. outsideinradio.org
42. Tough Girl Podcast — Sarah Williams interviews women adventurers, mountaineers, long-distance hikers and record-breakers about their expeditions and the logistics and fear behind them. A large back catalogue of first-person accounts. toughgirlchallenges.com
Alpine voices in French, German and Italian
43. Der Bergpodcast (German) — The podcast of the Deutscher Alpenverein, telling stories of people who live from and for the mountains: guides, hut wardens, conservationists and the association's own experts, plus episodes on Alpine protection and the future of the range. alpenverein.de
44. alpenverein basecamp (German) — The Austrian Alpine Club's show, whose motto is to go deep into subjects from high places. Long interviews and debate on safety, sustainability, hut policy and alpine sport rather than news headlines. alpenverein.at
45. Der Bergwelten-Podcast: Höhen und Tiefen (German) — Produced by Red Bull Media House alongside Bergwelten magazine, with interviews with alpinists, ski mountaineers and mountain personalities from Austria and the wider Alps. bergwelten.com
46. Montagnes Podcast (French) — From Montagnes Magazine, dedicated to alpinism and to the expedition accounts of contemporary French climbers, told largely in their own words.
47. Montagne en Scène — L'Interview Verticale (French) — The podcast strand of the Montagne en Scène film-tour, with interviews of leading alpinists, climbers, skiers and trail runners around the films screened each season. montagne-en-scene.com
48. Alpine Mag podcasts (French) — The audio output of the French mountain magazine Alpine Mag, including the documentary series Des sons et des cimes by journalist Pauline Boulet, Le refuge, and episodes of La Folie des Hauteurs co-produced with public radio on figures such as Patrick Edlinger and Catherine Destivelle. alpinemag.fr
49. Histoires au sommet (French) — Short-form testimonies from alpinists, hikers, hut wardens and guides, produced by Quentin Ceuppens in collaboration with the Club Alpin Belge. Roughly ten minutes per episode.
50. Oltre la vetta (Italian) — A video podcast made with the Club Alpino Italiano dealing with grief, loss and risk in mountaineering, one of several audio projects the CAI has developed around mountain culture. organizzazione.cai.it
How this TOP 50 is built
Shows were selected for being genuinely about mountains — skiing, snowboarding, ski touring, avalanche safety, climbing, alpinism or mountain adventure — and for having a public, verifiable presence on their own site or on a major listening platform. The order is editorial and thematic, not a quality ranking, and the list is updated as shows launch, change hosts or stop publishing. If you host or follow a mountain podcast that belongs here, tell us through our about page.
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Frequently asked questions
Which podcast should I start with if I mainly ski in the Alps?
The Ski Podcast is the most Alps-centred English show on this list, with resort episodes on Chamonix, Verbier, Champoluc and many others. Pair it with The Storm Skiing Journal if you are curious about how ski areas are run, and with the German-language Alpenverein shows if you follow hut and conservation issues in Austria and Bavaria.
Are there podcasts that actually teach avalanche and backcountry skills?
Several here lean educational rather than conversational: The Avalanche Hour and the Utah Avalanche Center Podcast bring in forecasters and snow scientists, Send and Return focuses on rescue equipment and technique, and Out and Back covers navigation and winter route planning. None of them replaces a certified avalanche course with field days.
Do these shows publish all year or only in winter?
It varies. Racing and resort shows such as Skiing is Believing, American Downhillers and FNRad concentrate on the northern-hemisphere winter, while climbing, alpinism and adventure shows like The Enormocast, The Cutting Edge and The Dirtbag Diaries publish across the year. Check each show's recent episode list before assuming it is dormant.
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