Will the Real Fake John Muir Please Stand Up? Michael P. Branch 11 min readEVERY TIME Chautauqua season rolls around, I feel compelled to rant about this bizarre cultural practice, which Teddy Roosevelt once...Read More
The Greening of Alex Honnold Brad Rassler 19 min readGO 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...Read More
It Started With a Pile of Stones John Long 13 min readTHE JOB SOUNDED AGREEABLE: film the Cliff Diving World Championships in Lana’i, Hawaii, for a network sports show. I didn’t...Read More
Climbing to Freedom Dick Dorworth 14 min readThen she recounted a story that put climbing into a stark, perhaps primordial perspective, one that I’d never entertained or needed to entertain.Read More