Maybe it’s the mountaineering reading I’m doing this week: Peter Boardman’s magnificent Sacred Summits, which I’m aggrieved to see is scandalously out of print. More on that later, I hope. But I blame my taste for this thrill-seeking on the late Boardman, one of the finest and strongest climbers of the 1980s and one of […]
Continue reading →A worker climbs a really skinny radio tower the height of the Sears Tower. Free climbs the last part. Vertigo city. See Also: A skier falls
Continue reading →He walked away from it cold, and went on to live a rich, fulfilling life. He and Moyers talk about something else for a bit. And then Moyers returns to the climb, “I know you did so much else, but I want want to return to that K2 climb again…,” says Moyer. And Houston says, “The best thing I ever did.”
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