16 On Belay

Jeff Apple Benowitz

Posted on: April 5, 2011


Albert Leichtfried remembers the aurora borealis above Norway's Lyngen Alps and the beauty of climbing in a place where most first ascents happen unrecorded, and quiet personal adventure is the only meaning. Meanwhile, Jeff Apple Benowitz recalls the name of the route that defined his scraggly youth, and Tami Knight reminds us that our shit really does still stink.

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