by Christian Beckwith | Oct 16, 2022 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes, Ninety-Pound Rucksack Podcast
Episode 2 Part 1 provides a sweeping overview of the history of skiing in America as told through the experiences of one of the 10th Mountain Division’s greatest unsung heroes, John Andrew McCown II. Episode includes interview excerpts with Paul Petzoldt, the Teton...
by Christian Beckwith | Oct 15, 2022 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes, Ninety-Pound Rucksack Podcast
This Abridged version of Episode 1 looks at how the 1939 Soviet invasion of Finland catalyzed the creation of the 10th Mountain Division… with a little help from the National Ski Patrol System, the United States Army, and a couple of twenty-something climbers from The...
by Christian Beckwith | Oct 3, 2022 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes, Ninety-Pound Rucksack Podcast
How a search for the roots of Teton mountaineering led to a podcast (and book) about the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division and the dawn of outdoor recreation in America. “As is well known,” American mountaineering legend Bill House wrote in The 1946 American...
by Christian Beckwith | Jun 30, 2022 | Christian Beckwith Writings
A version of this article appeared in the February 1998 issue of Rock & Ice and the book The Best of Rock & Ice: An Anthology. —- Bishkek: the ache of traveling knees, the smell of unwashed crotches, thin film of sweat in dried waves on our skin. An...
by Christian Beckwith | Jun 23, 2022 | Christian Beckwith Writings
Dad’s hands were broad and thick and gnarled, the skin thick as cracked leather, the backs ridged with tendons and roped with veins. Scars stood out like lashings. His fingers had been smashed and broken and yanked out of alignment so many times that they extended in...
