Nikolai Paterak

"It wasn’t until now, years later, that I’ve really come to realize what Steph realized all that time. Accidents don’t end during the ambulance ride, or even with apology publications years after the fact."

He dropped into a 40-foot crevasse in British Columbia, and the lights went out. When they came back on, it hurt.

"If plumbing had bouldering grades I was a V15 plumber. The Adam Ondra of pipes and turd herding."