”Free as Can Be” and the Power of Magnificent Failures
Only paradoxes can contain the power and magnitude of the universe and its truth. Ideologues and activists seek to advance their reductionist views of politics, life, art, and sport but all their...
View ArticleBoone Speed and the Art of Being Complicated
It’s hard to separate the art from the context in which it appears, and unfortunately just about everything I process these days passes through the filter of the outrageous culture war embroiling...
View ArticlePure of Heart: Remembering Brad Gobright
Of all the characters in the lore of Western climbing history, of all the heroes and the heroines, the maniacs and misfits, one could hardly script Brad’s character. The madman and the obsessed we’ve...
View ArticleThe Alpinist: Marc Andre-Leclerc and His Last Climb
I was hanging out with the Sender Films crew at SXSW for the Dawn Wall premier right around the time we all learned the sad news that Marc Andre-Leclerc had gone missing and was presumed dead in...
View ArticleThis Week in Climbing: Rifle’s New 5.15a
Sendtember draws to a close with Rifle getting its first 5.15a thanks to Joe Kinder. He sent his project last weekend. “Kinder Cakes” is a direct line out of the center of the Skull Cave, and having...
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