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...
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?
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.”
Chip Brown 7 min read
The match moved toward the endgame. He had no real chance of winning but stubbornly fought on.
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...
Jim Stimson 10 min read
ON THE EVENING OF FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2015, a wildfire swept through the small communities of Paradise and Swall Meadows, located...
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...
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
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.
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...
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...
Donella Meadows 42 min read
Back from the sublime to the ridiculous, from enlightenment to caveats.
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 7 min read
IF YOU’RE you’re one of the 1,200 climbers attempting Denali’s popular West Buttress route next year, the nearly two metric...
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 21 min read
That the Sierra might not be so very nevada one day might have been inconceivable to the Spaniards who named the range.
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?