First ascent, Second Tower, last man
After a world-famous Teton skyline crumbled, a 94-year-old climber who was part of its history reflects on time and the shared impermanence of mountains and men.
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After a world-famous Teton skyline crumbled, a 94-year-old climber who was part of its history reflects on time and the shared impermanence of mountains and men.
A new museum in Yosemite shares the tale of this towering slab of granite, from great bravery and Spider Woman to 72lbs of lost marijuana
A modest building outside the park holds the history of Yosemite's climbing greats
In his 1993 memoir, We Aspired: The Last Innocent Americans, writer Pete Sinclair evocatively chronicled a period of American history that between 1959 and 1969 saw the development of a remarkable archetype. This was a small, interconnected group of men (and a few even more adventurous women) who, turning their gaze from contemporary, societal norms of regimentation and attainment, chose rather to dedicate themselves to the pursuit of something less productive, more ephemeral, yet vastly more spiritually satisfying. Something that couldn’t be found wearing a tie or punching a clock, but onl...