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...
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.
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.
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. Branch 8 min read
ACTUALLY, HANNAH AND CAROLINE never really asked me to build them a tree house. I came up with that idea myself,...
Brad Rassler 19 min read
“THE JOKE IS ‘Hey, I’ve climbed Everest; now I’m a motivational speaker,’” Conrad Anker told me after I observed that...
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.
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 7 min read
IN JANUARY, I came across a snippet about a deadly virus cutting a swathe through China’s Hubei Province. I was...
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...
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.”
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....
Doug Peacock 20 min read
BEYOND THE WING of the Aeroflot twin-engine plane unfolds a tapestry of green tundra and mottled muskeg, the wetlands sliced...
Brad Rassler 2 min read
I SKI BECAUSE Allan Bard and Tom Carter told me to. Anyone who banked a telemark turn in the Sierra Nevada in the...
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.
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 9 min read
IN THE LAST DECADE OF THE LAST CENTURY, the videographer, writer and bon vivant Michael Strassman spied a line on a...
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...
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