Mark Twain 21 min read
OUR GUIDES, HIRED ON THE GEMMI, were already at Zermatt when we reached there. So there was nothing to interfere...
Sarah Winnemucca 62 min read
After your promise, how dare you to ask me to let your hearts be stained with the blood of those who are innocent of the deed that has been done to us by others?
Michael P. Cohen 11 min read
When I see these stoned counters in other people’s houses, they seem, in their shape and their function, like places of business or places of death.
Andy Selters 17 min read
IN 2012, I JOURNEYED with several climbing partners to an area of the Karakoram known only on satellite maps, arguably the last...
Brad Rassler 6 min read
THOUGH IT’S BEEN NEARLY THREE DECADES since Edward Abbey drained his last can of beer and flung it onto a Forest Service byway, his...
Brad Rassler 6 min read
ON THE EVENING of November 12, 1958, Warren Harding, Wayne Merry, and George Whitmore surmounted Yosemite’s El Capitan, having made the first ascent...
Doug Robinson 19 min read
“WHAT is alpinism, anyway?” Terry Kearney was starting to rave as we burned through the last of our fuel. It was...
Brad Rassler 22 min read
YES, I KNEW SOMETHING of the great mountaineer Don Jensen; after all, I bore witness to his Sierran legacy with every ramble...
Brad Rassler 32 min read
“My name is Karoline Conradi Øksnevad,” she said, the words devoid of much inflection. But then, with greater emphasis: “You don’t know me. I am both no one and everyone.”
Brad Rassler 14 min read
Unabashed, they climbed, skied, drank, smoked, danced, dropped, screwed, and designed gear, and schemed how to avoid the war in Asia.
Brad Rassler 19 min read
GO AHEAD: ASK ALEX HONNOLD about his unprecedented solo ascents, and watch how he reflexively flips the toggle switch to autopilot. He’ll rhapsodize about climbing...
Henry David Thoreau 54 min read
I WISH TO SPEAK A WORD for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture...
Yvon Chouinard 6 min read
IN MY three-quarters of a century of stupid stunts, I’ve had enough near-death experiences that I’ve accepted the fact that...
Brad Rassler 9 min read
IN THE LAST DECADE OF THE LAST CENTURY, the videographer, writer and bon vivant Michael Strassman spied a line on a...
Nancy Pfeiffer 31 min read
A calafate seed was growing inside me. The idea was simple: Return to Coyhaique, buy a horse, and head south.
Jake Abrahamson 12 min read
“The science of emotion gets really exciting when you get as close to the phenomenon as possible,” Keltner told me.
Dennis Eagan 7 min read
Then something remarkable happened: once I began to move, my mind shifted from melancholia to wonder.
Michael P. Branch 9 min read
Sarah nods. “Free ice water. Hand-painted road signs. Free coffee and doughnuts for vets. And jackalopes. That’s what we’re about."