An Interview with Roman Dial

I Recently had the pleasure of interviewing Roman Dial for the Outsiders website.

Not just an accomplished climber, mountaineer and skier, Roman was one of the first to see the value in the packraft in the early 1980s, crossing raging rivers with a basic inflatable dinghy to string together adventures that had never been thought of before.

The same goes for bicycles—and after realising the potential of mountain bikes in the late ‘80s he pedalled off the fire-roads and into the Alaskan wilderness with a few other brave souls to create ‘hellbiking’, the multi-day off-piste slog-fest which blazed a rocky trail for the bikepacking of today.

This is maybe the longest interview I’ve ever done, and maybe also one of the best. Read it here…