Brad Rassler 29 min read
WRITER, PROFESSOR, AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROVOCATEUR, David Gessner, is lounging in his writing shack out back of his North Carolina house, a...
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.
Philip Weiss 48 min read
YOU KNOW you are inside the Bohemian Grove when you come down a trail in the woods and hear piano music from amid a group of tents and then round a bend to see a man with a beer in one hand and his penis in the other, urinating into the bushes.
John Long 13 min read
THE JOB SOUNDED AGREEABLE: film the Cliff Diving World Championships in Lana’i, Hawaii, for a network sports show. I didn’t...
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...
Chip Brown 7 min read
The match moved toward the endgame. He had no real chance of winning but stubbornly fought on.
Brad Rassler 5 min read
“There is a Paiute proverb to the effect that no man should attempt the country east of the Sierras until...
Robert Lugg 5 min read
The epithet “basic” was all over Facebook news feeds and the blogosphere in 2014, and not only because Taylor Swift...
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.
Donella Meadows 42 min read
Back from the sublime to the ridiculous, from enlightenment to caveats.
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 7 min read
IN JANUARY, I came across a snippet about a deadly virus cutting a swathe through China’s Hubei Province. I was...
Dennis Eagan 7 min read
Then something remarkable happened: once I began to move, my mind shifted from melancholia to wonder.
CMarie Fuhrman 21 min read
And always, in this search, a person might find that she is already there, at the center of the world....
Katie Ives 9 min read
The very word ‘gloaming’ reverberates, echoes—the gloaming, the glimmer, the glisten, the glamour—carrying in its consonants the images of houses...
John Dittli 10 min read
“YOU AREN’T GONNA BUILD NO HOUSE OF STRAW IN MY COUNTY!” my wife Leslie and I were told by a small-town...
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 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...