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Climber injured while scrambling First Flatiron David Zalubowski/AP Pedestrians move across a bridge over the lake in Harlow Platts Community Park with the Flatirons in the background Thursday, March 25, 2021, in Boulder, Colo. Forecasters are calling for a third storm packing rain and possibly snow to spread across the intermountain West late Thursday. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) and last updated 2021-05-06 00:14:28-04 BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — Crews in Boulder County helped rescue a man who fell while scrambling the First Flatiron Wednesday. The 19-year-old was down climbing the back of ...

Photograph by Martha Stewart One spring day in Las Vegas, adventure-writer David Roberts ’65 set out for a round of golf with Alex Honnold, the world’s foremost free-soloist. More than a generation apart, the two men have shared a fanatical drive to ascend, and grew close while co-writing Honnold’s 2015 autobiography, Alone on the Wall. The younger climber, who scaled Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan without any gear, had never set foot on a green, but quickly found his stride: “To me, the pleasure of the sport was to whack the ball as hard as I could, every time—give it 100 p...