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Colin Haley, one of America’s leading alpinists and a partner of Alex’s, once told me that he climbs because it satisfies a primal desire

More than the doing of the deed itself, it was the years of anticipation and preparation leading up to it that seemed to me

Peter Croft once explained the feeling you get from free soloing as a heightened type of perception. A little edge that you need to

Truth will not come in the guise of opinions shared by others, as the truth is neither a collection of slogans nor an ideology.

[I]n the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted

I never thought, when I used to read books, what work it was to write them.’ ‘It’s work enough to read them, sometimes,’ I

You remember (to say nothing of our treatment) this same Creakle turning his son out of doors, I suppose, and the life he used

There are entire disciplines in which predictions have been failing, often at great cost to society. Consider something like biomedical research. In 2005, an

. I am getting rather tired of hearing athletes talk like anything they do benefits mankind in any way. While the feat itself is extremely

THERE WAS NO CHEERING CROWD when Alex pulled over the final block, no spraying of champagne, no gushing reporters asking him what it felt