Kendal Mountain Festival 2025
Our Outdoor Gear Chat Podcast is back at Kendal Mountain Festival for 2025!!
After an incredible podcast season last year listen here our podcast team is psyched to be heading back to Kendal this November for a bigger and better festival season of chat, laughter and inspiration. The festival theme this year is “Hope” and we have a mind blowing line up of guests to chat with about their favourite kit, how they use it and how it helps them achieve their goals.
Confirmed so far:
Sir Chris Bonington - looking back on a year of Everest The Hard Way 50th Anniversary celebrations raising money for Doug Scott’s charity Community Action Nepal.
Sir Chris Bonington at KMF 2025
Ed Jackson and Alice Sainsbury - explain how adapting technical clothing designs enabled Ed to become the first disabled person to make a first ascent of a 4000m unclimbed peak in the Tien Shan mountains.
Sarah Perry - The worlds toughest maths teacher will be chatting about her incredible Back Yard Ultra world record and her trusty Suunto watch.
Sarah Perry Breaks Womens Back Yard Ultra World Record
Dave Evans - Plas y Brenin Chief Instructor Dave will talk us through packing for Scottish winter climbs and using Scotland as a training ground for higher peaks.
Available Wednesday 10th December
Mountain Equipment & Plas y Brenin
Hannah Mitchell and Sam Jagger - talk about how their Deuter rucsacks carried all their kit on their micro expedition to Tajikistan.
Available Wednesday 17th December
Jesse Dufton - joins us to talk about his new film Climbing Blind 2 and how he mixes trad gear and audio tech to push the grade.
Available Wednesday 24th December
Caitlin Connor - explains the training and kit she needs to see her to the 2030 Winter Olympics Dry Tooling comp.
Robbie Phillips - will be busting myths about rock boots while giving an insight into what it takes to climb E11.
Nigel Vardy - AKA “Mr Frostbite” chats with us about his new film about returning to Denali to meet his rescuers 20 years after his accident and how bespoke equipment means he still enjoys adventures across the globe.
Professor Rachel Carr and Sonam Rinzin - discuss using kit while living on a glacier, completing field work in the Bhutan Himalaya.
Alpine Club & The Mount Everest Foundation
Sally Orange MBE - chats about running 80 marathons across the globe while dressed as a piece of fruit and running to her Chemotherapy sessions.
Alex Staniforth - the “Adversity Adventurer” shares how he’s used the outdoors to manage epilepsy, anxiety and bulimia to become the first and fastest person to climb all 446 mountains in England & Wales by human power in just 45 days, raising money for his mental health charity; Mind Over Mountains.