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In 2019, Sabine Pratt-Hunzinker fell 20m from an anchor at Payne's Ford in New Zealand. She reflects on the gruelling physical rehabilitation process and how she has overcome the trauma of the accident to get back on the rock.

Caught unexpectedly in a terrain trap in the New Zealand back country, mountaineering veteran Vanessa Wills remembers the moment in 2006 when an avalanche almost took her life.

Mt Ninderry's Matt Fingleton recaps a first ascent fail on Mt Tibrogargan. From crag snakes and approach pluggers to choss and rainstorms, this misadventure has it all.

We look back on some of the highlights of The Bail List's 2021 season, featuring monster whippers, bad jokes (mostly by your host) and a surprising number of instances of people shitting themselves...

The tables have turned this month as The Bail List celebrates its one year anniversary! Friend of the show Henk Morgans interviews host Nicole Rowles and her partner Andrew Banks about their own fails, bails and epics.

In this episode of The Bail List, David Jefferson details his Yosemite climbing career and weighs in on success and failure on big mountain objectives.

Adventure climber and alpinist Henk Morgans is back on The Bail List! He and long-time climbing partner Jayd Blunden recall their 2016 expedition to Cape Raoul, Tasmania, where they and two mates had their sights set on the sea pillar route, “Pole Dancer”. It should’ve been a cruisey day out, climbing one of the country’s best 22s…but an accident went from bad to worse when the party discovered just how remote their location really was.

Talking first ascents with Alex Mougenot, whose career establishing adventure trad routes has culminated in a huge work in progress on Mount Warning.

Brad Fennell reflects on how his career as a free soloist has shaped his attitudes towards risk and reward in climbing, and broaches fraught topics like why you should free solo, and if you should ever try and talk someone out of soloing.

Issy Jukes recounts a strategic rescue after a rock fell onto her climbing partner’s foot while simul-rapping off a route on Mt. Cooroora.

The Bail List takes a deep dive into the PLB (Personal Locator Beacon), with James Fryday, Duty Officer at the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, the body responsible for responding to distress calls.

Fabio Valeri-Formoso thought he was about to die when his climbing partner’s fall dislodged a huge rock from the wall while he was on belay at Frog Buttress.

The Bail List gets philosophical in this episode. Follow adventurer, author and blogger Ryan Siacci to the West Ridge of Denali as he reflects on one of the most iconic bails of his climbing career and how it shaped his approach to safety during hardcore adventures.

Duncan Steel and Henk Morgans are incredibly accomplished rock climbers and mountaineers, who have taken on some of the biggest objectives in the world. However, when they set their sights on the first one-day ascent of Lostboys on Northern NSW’s Mount Warning, even they thought they might have bitten off more than they could chew.

Climber, adventurer and photographer Nathan McNeil was taking pictures of a new route at Spot X, Urbenville. One slip-up set of a chain of disastrous consequences.

While chasing the second ascent of a remote adventure trad line on Mount Barney, a serious accident forces young climbers Kyle Addy and Dan Cox to put their vertical rescue skills to use for the first time.