October 21, 2020, Juniper Pass, Colorado The clouds didn't make sense. They were rising in the north, high above skyline, towering into the upper atmosphere as I drove my kids to school along Evergreen Parkway. We got to the S-curves and it finally made sense. Those weren't clouds in the colloquial sense, they were towering […]

September 12, 2013, on the banks of the Bhagirathi, Gangotri, Uttarakhand, India "The river is insane," Wende texted via satellite. I was confused: She couldn't know that, at that moment, I was sitting on the bank of a raging Bhagirathi River in the hamlet of Gangotri. Sure, she of course knew I was in India, […]

The world lost a legend yesterday with the passing of Kancha Sherpa, the last living member of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition and, along with Jim Whittaker, the only living members of the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition. I didn't know Kancha well, but was fortunate to spend a couple days with him in […]