Climbing trips are one of the perks of the sport. Sometimes the hardest part can be choosing where to go.
Let The Coolest Climbing Festivals in Europe guide your itinerary in 2019. Continue reading The Coolest Climbing Festivals in Europe to Get You Stoked for 2020
Outward Bound offers a model for education that I believe in and which played a formative role in my own growth.
I wanted to find a way to use my strength (marketing) to support an organization with an important mission. I made my way to Outward Bound Romania. Continue reading An Expedition for Life: Why I’m Volunteering with Outward Bound Romania
Before Taking Flight on Orla Perć… My Not Very Good Stay in Zakopane Orla Perć is known as the most difficult and dangerous hiking trail in Poland. According to Wikipedia more than 140 people have lost their lives on the route. For the 4.5km stretch of hiking/ scrambling/ climbing, that comes out to 31.11 people … Continue reading How to Survive Poland’s Most Dangerous Trail: It Starts With a Very Bad Stay in Zakopane (Part 1)
Why u no want climb w/ me? Continue reading Somebody Help Me! What’s the Super Secret Climber’s Handshake in Poland?!?
Europe, Round 3, began as a non-start. I arrived at Logan on Saturday night nervous about the next leg of my trip. Terminal E is laid out in a long corridor, and I began distractedly searching for Primera Air to check in. I walked down the length of the counters, back and forth. No … Continue reading For the Sake of Self-Interest and Re: The Return to Europe
I started to feel anxious in Lviv. The month-long stay was coming to an end and I didn’t know much more about the city than when I arrived. The only “museum” I visited was the masochism-themed bar, Masoch, eponymously named for Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the 1800s Lviv author and sexual submissive (obviously). There … Continue reading The Delta Between Expectations and Reality: Anxiety in Lviv
For me, the objective is simplicity.
The aim of my travels has been about the pursuit of freedom, especially mentally. I want to live in a manner that feels authentic to who I am.
Aaron Gerry 