A nice random find…
Just stumbled across this short, but very generous review of Enduring Patagonia written seven years ago by Charles King. I’d never seen it before. Gotta l...
Category: Enduring Patagonia
Posts related to climbing and my book, ENDURING PATAGONIA
A literary connection: Wind, Sand and Stars to China’s Wings
This recent reading is the first time I've gone through Wind, Sand and Stars without an eye toward its relevance to climbing. I'm happy to report that it's ever...
A few articles about the Compressor Route Controversy
David Roberts’ good and fair “Patagonia’s Cerro Torre Gets the Chop: Maestri Unbolted” for National Geographic Adventure. Chris Weidner...
Interview w Jason Kruk, Hayden Kennedy, Rolando Garibotti, and Colin Haley
Here’s an interview with Jason Kruk, Hayden Kennedy, Rolando Garibotti, and Colin Haley. In what will pose difficulties for some, it’s written in Sp...
More on the Compressor Route
So I checked out of the net for a few days and scored classic surf with Mark and Susan Robsinson and Randy Leavitt “somewhere west of Goleta.” We ta...
The Compressor Route chopped… more thoughts
Having slept on it, I find myself more uncomfortable with the news that the upper sections of Maestri’s Compressor Route were chopped by Hayden Kennedy an...
The Compressor Route chopped!
The Supertopo thread just posted by Rolando Garibotti — a friend I much admire and treasure — clarifies the facts of Hayden Kennedy’s and Jaso...
Huge news from Patagonia!
Breaking news from Patagonia, reported by Colin Haley, is that Hayden Kennedy and Jason Kruk have completed the first “fair means” ascent of Cerro T...
Exciting first ascents completed in Patagonia this season
I’ve got Patagonia on the brain having given Enduring Patagonia’s Winter West Face slide show to the Rock, Ice, Mountain Club in Santa Rosa last nig...
You’d better hope you fall in love with it
Us narrative non-fiction guys and gals are pretty dependent on the quality of the stories we discover. A story swallows a massive chunk of your life if you deci...