Dennis Eagan 7 min read
Then something remarkable happened: once I began to move, my mind shifted from melancholia to wonder.
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?
John Dittli 10 min read
I’M NOT A SUPERSTITIOUS GUY, BUT REALLY, I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN. I’m no meteorologist either, but after 35 years of...
Brad Rassler 7 min read
IN JANUARY, I came across a snippet about a deadly virus cutting a swathe through China’s Hubei Province. I was...
Thuy-vy Nguyen 6 min read
Time when we are unexpectedly alone can be difficult but, at least for some of us, it can also be a blessing in disguise.
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.
Brad Rassler 6 min read
Gibbons once told McPhee that "there is nothing I would rather do than eat my way through a roadside ditch"
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 10 min read
EVERYTHING’S BEEN COMING UP ROSES for the women of the U.S. cross country skiing team. World Championships. World Cup podiums. World...
Brad Rassler 21 min read
The reality is that if you have a constituency of voters who have no direct relationship with the natural world, why would they ever vote, allocate federal tax dollars to support it in perpetuity to the future the way it is now?
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 2 min read
There were articles about backcountry skiing on those pages. Or rather, upon closer examination, a series of screeds. Here was a rant about initiating an early "lead change" to carve the perfect telemark turn, and another about how to lay down the perfect skin track
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...
Brad Rassler 11 min read
They wear the slightly bemused expressions of those who have ordered their filet well-done, only to find it served up tartare –but they’re too proud to return the meat to the kitchen.
Dick Dorworth 14 min read
Then she recounted a story that put climbing into a stark, perhaps primordial perspective, one that I’d never entertained or needed to entertain.
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...
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.”
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...