September 6, 2014, on Luna Col, Northern Pickets Range, North Cascades, Washington. Scroll to the bottom to see the view in a full VR panorama. The evening was about as peaceful as could be imagined, which was a welcome break from the preceding days. Four of us - Dave Morton, Sid Pattison, Jeremiah Watt, and […]
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, […]
It was on this day (June 18th) in 1886 that George Herbert Leigh Mallory was born in Moberly, Cheshire to a clergyman. I have written plenty about he and Andrew Irvine’s fateful summit bid on Mount Everest on June 8, 1924, and won’t repeat myself here. But, in some pretty exciting news, my friend Conrad […]
Did George Mallory and Andrew Irvine reach the summit of Everest on June 8, 1924? Could they have climbed the famed and difficult Second Step?
Everest, Everest 1924, Everest History, Mallory & Irvine
Read MoreLessons from the K2 1953 expedition that remind us what is truly important in critical decision making, especially when big goals and high risk are involved.
Charlie Houston, History, K2 1953
Read MoreTrusting our instinct, our intuition, is critical in decision making, especially when we don't have the luxury of long-term analysis.
instinct, intuition, malcolm gladwell
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