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Broken Watches
A close call on the Sharkstooth in Rocky Mountain National Park causes the author to reflect on loss---in the mountains and out.
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Changing Leads
A father swaps roles with his son in the wilds of New Mexico.
Never a Coward
A dark, powerful piece of climbing fiction: An unnamed climber and Vietnam vet confronts his demons.
Wide As All the World: Kilimanjaro’s Vanishing Summit Ice
Hemingway's mountain is "wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun." But it was not a peak I had hoped to climb.
Strawberry Bluff, Forever and Ever
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Dying Lights
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Rhode Trip
Climbing is fun, climbing hard is fun too, but being with friends is better, and no one wins when you shout at boulders.
Severance – 200 Feet into the Void
"As I sit in my harness dangling below a massive roof, the sheath of my rope starts to fray as the cliff’s jagged edge of quartz begins sawing through to the core. My mind, entering fight-or-flight mode, convinces me death is imminent."
Frustration Creek
Check out Juliann Allison's author page.
Go Big or Go Home
Check out Daniel Brazil's author page.
A Love Story – One Pitch at a Time
Check out Belén Carmichael's author page.