Long Writer News Today

John Long is perhaps most famous for claiming the first one-day ascent of the Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, with Jim Bridwell and Billy Westbay, on Memorial Day 1975. But even during his heavily chronicled years as an acid-dropping, free-climbing member of Yosemite Valley’s “Stone Masters,” his primary interest was storytelling. “It’s always been writing,” he told the News&Guide. “I was incidentally a climber.” Although it was impossible t...