Found this old article of mine and it made me chuckle. Guess we’ve all heard climbers bullshitting like this and you’d get something like it from mountain biking, boarding, surfing. Every counter-culture has it’s own language….. “No, just look at it will you! It’s at least a fifth smaller than the right one. Hell, […]
Climbing literature is a bizarre genre. The general public crave details of the latest D-list celebrity snow plod to the summit of yet another desecrated, litter strewn Himalayan peak. Alternatively they want to hear about a near death experience or a litany of death and misery associated with the Eiger or K2. Frankly, much climbing […]