“It seemed built to perpetuate our dreams”–thus Guido Magnone described the Aiguille du Dru in The West Face. Ian Parnell relives the history of a… Read More »Mountain Profile: The Aiguille du Dru Part II (1955-2015)
IT WAS CLOSING NIGHT OF THE YEARLONG RUN OF PAVLA OVER THE PRECIPICE, AND EVERY SEAT IN Ljubljana’s Slovenian Youth Theatre was occupied. Actors lowered… Read More »Local Hero
February 20, 2015: I lay awake in a small cave, high above the Torre Valley in Patagonia. Storms echoed across the giant arena of granite… Read More »What the Heart, Only, Sees
The rock was about half the size of a brick, Joe Brown guesses; it’s hard to be precise when these things hit you in the… Read More »Tool Users: the Joe Brown Helmet
One after the other, their toes compress then release from the cliff’s edge. Shoulders hunch forward, chins are tucked in. Toes are pointed. Legs are… Read More »Going Home
IN A BRICK HOUSE in the tree-lined village of Hildenborough, England, a Tibetan woman listened to her British husband translate books and newspapers, so she… Read More »Sharp End
