a quick intro to
the ancient days
the golden age of mountaineering
the 8000ers
why it's hard
the biggest badasses in history
how you too can be a badass
You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.
Wetterhorn, 1852
Eiger, 1858
Matterhorn, 1865
first ascents all between 1950 and 1964
Khumbu Icefall
Khumbu Icefall
Serac below the summit of K2.
Cornices of ice could collapse at any time.
Or so we thought.