Live It Up with Mountain Life

Spencer Seabrooke is an airtime master, a highliner, base jumper, a snowboarder, climber, mountaineer, jindle boarder and all-around adventure seeking kinda dude. And he knows a lot about airtime. In 2016 he was featured in the highlining documentary "Untethered" walking a then-world record highline in Squamish BC with no safety tether. He's also known as a co-founder of SlacklifeBC [https://www.slacklifebc.com/], Canada's best slack line community/shop, and has a bonkers-awesome instagram [https://www.instagram.com/spencerseabrooke] feed you definitely want to check out. Host: Feet Banks

Sonnie Trotter is a climber and an author. Raised in Ontario, he started climbing as a teenager and never looked back. Over the past 25+ years Sonnie has pioneered some of the hardest routes in Canada and been on big walls all over the world with other icons of the sport. He's climbed competitively, professionally, and has also spent months on the road travelling and climbing with his wife and kids. And throughout it all, he never lost that love and that drive that fueled him as a teenager. HIs new memoir is called Uplifted: Evolution of a Climbing Life [https://www.patagonia.ca/product/uplifted-the-evolution-of-a-climbers-life/BK930.html], and it is on shelves now.

Stephan Kesting is on the show today. He’s an adventurer and an author (and a jui jitsu master and a firefighter) who recently paddled a canoe over 1600 km through some of the most bug infested terrain in Northern Canada...alone, on a single, transplanted kidney. And it took him 41 days, which is pretty wild considering a whole lot of the journey was paddling upstream. Stephan talks about the risks of complacency, the will to carry on, and what it's like to really stare down your own mortality. His new book about the journey (and more) is called Perseverance: Life and Death in the Subarctic [https://www.simonandschuster.ca/books/Perseverance/Stephan-Kesting/9781639368617] and it's a doozy!! Learn more about Stephan on his martial arts website [https://www.grapplearts.com/] too. (Warning: this episode contains a few cuss words.)

Jody MacDonald has sailed around the world twice but says she got seasick almost every day for ten years. She’s also visited over 100 countries and creates incredible, award winning photographs everywhere she goes. To celebrate International Women's Day, host Feet Banks gets the honour of connecting with Jody as she motorcycles through the Himalaya to discuss ditching the office job, leaning into your passion, and the value of insignificance in the face of nature's most vast spaces. Find Jody's work on her Instagram @jodymacdonaldphoto [https://www.instagram.com/jodymacdonaldphoto/] and hit up her website [https://jodymacdonaldphotography.com/] for stunning prints of her work.

Darren Rayner grew up making fun little movies and shred edits with his buddies and, when he was still in college, co-founded Voleurz, a badass, grassroots Canadian clothing company that also made films and generally helped push mountain culture down a more creative path. As time went by, Darren pivoted a bit and founded Magnafire Media, [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.magnafiremedia.com/&ved=2ahUKEwiJ-LTo4-GLAxUSETQIHdjhDDwQFnoECBoQAQ&usg=AOvVaw39v2x5kMV5z7Hd1tlnIDNQ] a Vancouver-based creative studio and production facility that creates videos for brands that want to stand out and get noticed. NOTE: there are a couple of cuss words in this Pod, be warned. As well, a video of the conversation is available on the Mountain Life YouTube. [https://youtu.be/y1eIP4vmGfw]