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Morromico Bay, Chocó, Colombia | July, 2018

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Summit Everest with Me - Virtually!

Just like the real thing, it's taken me a while to make this full virtual climb of Everest a reality. But, we're finally there! Well, via the Southeast Ridge at least, and part of the West Ridge. And, a nice view from the Pang La pass in Tibet - from Nyonno Ri to Shishapangma - […]

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Everest Basecamp Virtual Trek

I'll admit it: I have perfectionist tendencies. Not that everything (anything?) I do is perfect - far from it. But, I do have some mutated, recessive gene (thanks, family) that makes me get obsessive about certain things, trying to improve then perfect them to the point of insanity. One such thing is the Virtual Everest […]

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Trek Virtually to Everest (and more)

I had just been revisiting photos from my time with him in Khumbu in 2012 when I heard the news that Jim Whittaker sadly passed away on April 7 at age 97. I'd been going through photos, looking for a specific one, of a specific peak, when I went down a rabbit hole. Photos of […]

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Joy in "Each Moment and Whatever Happens"

Years ago, I was wandering with Pete McBride through trash piles on the outskirts of Rishikesh, India. We were filming the final bits of our film Holy (un)Holy River, and had come to the local dump to document the effluvia seeping from it into the nearby, sacred Ganges River. We knew what to expect: a […]

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Laughter in Leather

October 8, 2013, Jajmau, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India My eyes watered, nose ran, lungs burned. I wasn’t sick, but I sure felt like it. We’d spent the day wandering through Jajmau, a “suburb” of Kanpur - the Manchester of the East - and touring its tanneries. Lying just south of sprawling Kanpur, Jajmau is the […]

MOUNTAINS OF MEMORIES

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Reflections

September 18, 2019, on the shore of Lake Bohinj, Slovenia It was a foggy, mystical misty morning along the shores of Lake Bohinj. Not nearly as famous as its nearby cousin, Lake Bled, Bohinj is – in my humble estimation – far more beautiful, nested in lush valleys of the Julian Alps and butting up […]

MOUNTAINS OF MEMORIES

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Re-Humanizing "Them" - and Us

Moments after a single shot rang out at Utah Valley University, taking the life of Charlie Kirk, dozens of shots pierced the air at Evergreen High School, critically injuring two kids and forever altering the lives of a thousand students, faculty, staff, and their families. Same time zone. Same weapon used. Different ages and ideologies […]

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