Ascent Annual Special Edition 2021
Stories
POSTs
Elegy for a Boulder
The boulder, right in San Diego, was like no other and became a testpiece hang where visitors were welcome to be punished.
Wild Times: Chasing Dreams (and weather) When Patagonia Was Untamed
In the early 1990s in Patagonia you were on your own. You lived by the weather, chasing brief clear windows hoping you could get up, and down, before storm slammed the door shut ... or spelled disaster.
The Tragic Story of the Man Who Claimed Cerro Torre’s First Ascent
He left us with nothing and everything.
Disoriented and Alone With a Traumatic Brain Injury in the Eastern Sierra
A TBI, a climb, and an altered state
How the Worst Crag Dog Saved My Life
In the thirty-fourth year of my life, I walked into a ring of oak trees in the foothills west of Carbondale, Colorado, to kill myself.