Climbing For the Greater Good
Patagonia | Essay
“The Middle.” Patagonia. January 2016. View PDF It was 8:45 p.m. when Gilbert made the announcement. “I have something to tell you,” she said. These were the first words she’d spoken to me since I’d seen her an hour before when I set off to lead an ice-choked crack that gave way to a rime-covered slot. Her head had just … Read More
Mountain Magazine | Feature Article
Gaining | Alpinist Magazine
“Gaining.” Alpinist Magazine. June 2015. Read Online | Download PDF “Cold calling has its place. In 1996 I saw a picture of Kitty Calhoun climbing a dazzling ice wall in an exceptionally fetching one-piece suit, and I decided she and I should climb together. Never mind that I was twenty and had never summited anything harder than Pyramid Peak in … Read More
Blind Runners | Film
Blind Runners | Documentary Film Blind Runners is a 23-minute documentary featuring the 2013 Accelerate Ethiopia, an initiative that produced 179 runners in Ethiopia’s first ever trail race, 871 successful sight restoring surgeries, 1 new library to serve 500 primary school students and a 1000-person rural community in the heart of Northern Ethiopia. Accelerate Ethiopia was a partnership between Himalayan … Read More
Decision Making with Intuition | Interview
Backpacker Magazine | Essay
“Norway’s Lofoten Islands: Where the sun never sets, the adventure never ends, if you can keep up.” Backpacker Magazine. June 2014. Dowload PDF | View Online Slideshow “It’s 11 p.m. when I shoulder my daypack, step out the door of a red-shingled fisherman’s cabin, and head into the sunshine toward the mossy, tundra-covered granite coastline of the Norwegian Sea. A … Read More