Wierdly enough, it was Jon Krakauer’s seminal book, Into Thin Air, that made me want to start climbing. It figures that it would take a retelling of a horrible disaster to make me want to take up what some see as a semi-dangerous fringe sport.
That said, I’ve been rather obsessed with Everest, the culture and [...]

 
I don’t know how I missed this back in April, but apparently the guys at Sender Films are taking their very excellent film First Ascent and turning it into a series on the National Geographic Channel. There haven’t been any solid dates announced for the show’s premier, and, strangely, it looks like the show will be [...]