
E68 – Ray Zahab
Ray Zahab does the kinds of adventures few other people would ever want to do: A 7500 km traverse of the Sahara Desert, a -40 degree winter stroll across Ellesmere Island, Death Valley, the Gobi Desert, the South Pole, P

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Live It Up with Mountain Life is a collection of conversations about life in the wilderness with the people who do it best. Discussions about adventure, conservation, missions & mishaps, and all the great stories and inspiration nature provides, host Feet Banks wades into the wilds with some of the outdoor world's most intriguing characters. Sharpen your edges and grease up those chains, 'cause you don't wanna miss this one. (Warning: Podcast may contain occasional adult language, mature concepts, and other awesome shit.)
mountainlife hosts Live It Up with Mountain Life, a arts show with 67 episodes published.

Ray Zahab does the kinds of adventures few other people would ever want to do: A 7500 km traverse of the Sahara Desert, a -40 degree winter stroll across Ellesmere Island, Death Valley, the Gobi Desert, the South Pole, P

2025 Canadian Geographic Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Maxime Légaré-Vézina is based out of Quebec city and has been shooting photos of wildlife since about 2014, and full time since 2022. Sometimes he sits in the w

Host Feet Banks kicks off season six of Live it Up with Mountain Life by speaking to his favourite snowboarder and medieval sword enthusiast, Jess Kimura. A celebrated badass street rider, Jess is a fearless force of pos

Nicholas Thompson is an author and a journalist, a musician, and one of the smartest people we know. But before and beyond that, Nick is a runner. Marathons, ultramarathons, cross country, ripping around a park with a ki

Veronica Woodruff is an outdoor recreationalist and an environmental scientist. She's spend more than half her life living in the mountains of BC, and her latest book, Blind Drunk: A Sober Look at Our Boozy Culture exami

Taylor Godber is a professional big mountain snowboarder on the North Face team. She’s also a chef, an artist, a writer, a lover of dogs, surfer, adventurer, picnic-er, and a very kind soul. Taye was the founding editor

A true adventurer, Matt is a climber, surfer, paddler, and mad-genius tinkerer/inventor/self-taught engineer who's company Sea to Sky Cable Cam has helped him travel the world to help capture top adventure and nature sto

Ben Poechman is a snowboarder and an artist and a true-grit farm kid who finds a way to make things happen with the resources he's got. As summer winds down and we start looking at the pow days to come, Ben chimes in wit

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

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 wal

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

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 ce

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 hel

Happy Holidays! We’re re-gifting this episode. Well, not really. It’s a brand new episode but, for the first time ever, we are having a guest back on the pod for round two. Frank Wolf is on the show today. It’s the Re-Wo

Alenka Mali is a big mountain snowboarder, climber, BASE jumper, jindleboarder and general mountain sport badass. Last winter, she produced a film called "The Beginning", which examines her unique mountain-based upbringi

On September 8, 2022 everything went sideways for Charlie Adams. He had a little side hustle working as a tree surgeon. He was working on a tree in Tiny Township. It was the last tree of the day. He was 35 feet up when d

Most anyone who’s paid attention to any ski or bike mags over the past two decades should know who Blake is. He has more than 300 covers to his credit, a photo of the year award from Powder Magazine and there’s a pretty

As one of the main characters in Red Bull's documentary The Engine Inside, Jay Bearhead has seen it all; residential schools, drug abuse, alcoholism, homelessness. But it's his rise from those lows that are inspirational

For the 50th episode of Live it Up with Mountain Life, host Feet Banks connects with Sandy Ward (Kelkeláokik)—snowboarder, mountain biker, filmmaker, guide to be, and a trailblazer at helping indigenous youth enjoy and r

The briefest history of Great Lakes surfing according to Grumpy Bob: The Wyldewood Surf Club was formed in 1965 out of Port Colbourne, Ontario and from its very beginnings was an international club with both Canadian and
Nicholas Thompson
author, journalist, musician, runner · Westlake Golf Club
1 appearance on this show
Stephan Kesting
author of Perseverance: Life and Death in the Subarctic · https://www.grapplearts.com
1 appearance on this show
Jazmine Lowther
professional trail runner, plant biologist, and coach
1 appearance on this show
Matt Maddaloni
Sea to Sky Cable Cam
1 appearance on this show
Bob Sobering
Wyldewood Surf Club
1 appearance on this show
Mike Rogge
Mountain Gazette
1 appearance on this show
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