Hangdog Days: Conflict, Change, and the Race for 5.14
The following story from Jeff Smoot's new book, Hangdog Days: Conflict, Change, and the Race for 5.14, follows one of the pioneers of hard sport climbing in America, Alan Watts, as he brings his hangdogging tactics---at that time, in 1985, anathema to the virtues held holy by Yosemite hardmen---to a notorious undone project at Donner Summit, California: Crack of the Eighties.