When Chouinard started out, climbing gear was very crude. He began by pounding out pitons in his parents’ backyard. At the time, there were ~250 climbers in the US. Gear… [Continue Reading]
Month: December 2016
Notes on Dead Companies Walking, by Scott Fearon
Buy the book here, if you’d like. (Not an affiliate link.) On failure: “What I didn’t realize at the time was that living through that bust [oil in Texas, mid-1980s]… [Continue Reading]