Heroism, Masculinity, and The Dawn Wall Film
What made the Dawn Wall the Dawn Wall? A new film by Sender Films and Red Bull Media House answers this question. The Dawn Wall was such an unforeseen, earth-shattering…
inspired climbing stories
What made the Dawn Wall the Dawn Wall? A new film by Sender Films and Red Bull Media House answers this question. The Dawn Wall was such an unforeseen, earth-shattering…
“Alpinism is the art of freedom,” wrote Voytek Kurtyka, the great Polish alpinist who redefined the limits of Himalayan climbing and exploration in the 1980s. Voytek is perhaps best known…
I normally don’t like running book excerpts since they drop you into the middle of a scene/story, and I’m never able to really follow what the heck is going on.…
Running through the Utah Hills, old Highway 91 winds from St. George, Utah, to Littlefield, Arizona. The old two-lane road, mostly abandoned in favor of I-15, is of central importance…
When I was a sophomore in college in 2000, the Internet still had a bit of a wild west feel to it. I used Napster to cop all my music, and…
When I was working as the senior editor at Rock and Ice magazine, there was one year when I had to put my foot down. “Do you think that we…
In one of the all-time greatest road trips, a group of self-described “Funhogs” that was comprised of three rock climbers, a skier and filmmaker piled into a 1965 Ford Econoline…
Remember when people were all like, “Bro, I gotsta go to Hampi and get my Pilgrimage on, dawg! Fo’ real! We be pimpin’ Mantras and Mandalas, yo. Shit’s real!” Or…