Erik Howes’ mantra is “stay wild.” And he certainly does.
He’s the most vagabonding, and perhaps daring, of the interviewees so far (not that it’s a competition), and his story offers pause for reflection of what’s really possible when you abide by the calling: “Stay wild!” Continue reading Jobs for the Traveling Climber: Stay Wild
Gili Keselman didn’t want to grow old and regret not pursuing his dreams.
As an architect, his career is not typically associated with the nomadic lifestyle. “I felt numb in the office and eventually got to a point where I chose adventure over security,” he says.
He set out for the big mountains of Canada, and now lives and works out of his van, “Air Force Bum.”
“Before being a ‘professional ski bum,’ work took the majority of my focus… It seemed to be the center of my life. We lived to work.”
“Today, work is just something I do between adventures.” Continue reading Jobs for the Traveling Climber: Architect
The drill whirls about in place, boring into the soft limestone. Fine grit clouds kick out at the edges of the hole, puff, puff, puff. The walls echo with the ricochet of millions of years of solidity grinding back into individual particulates. Water droplets sizzle on stone from sweat trickling down forearm and dripping off … Continue reading Josh Cook: On Developing Crags, Self, and the Next Generation
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