Psychic Wilderness

I believe that we are destroying the wilderness of the planet at the exact rate, and to the same extent, that we are destroying the wilderness inside our own psyches. The human being and the natural environment are inseparable: what we do to one we also do to the other. There are many things that…

Curly Abroad

Last month marked the fifth anniversary of Karen McNeill’s disappearance on the upper reaches of Mount Foraker, where she and partner Sue Nott were attempting the Infinite Spur. In my latest article for Alpine Athena I pay tribute to the woman who inspired me to become a better person: I can still remember the first…