by Christian Beckwith | May 25, 2022 | Christian Beckwith Writings
N.B.: This Editor’s Note first appeared in Alpinist 12. December 1992. I sold my last Christmas tree, pocketed the twenty-dollar bill and took down my signs. It had been a successful season, and, flush with a few thousand dollars, I stuck out my thumb for the...
by Christian Beckwith | May 25, 2022 | Christian Beckwith Writings
When the Hayden Geological Survey arrived in northwestern Wyoming in 1871 to explore the region that would, a year later, become Yellowstone National Park, few Caucasians had ever laid eyes on the Teton Range. Upon first seeing the Grand, its team members did exactly...
by Christian Beckwith | May 1, 2022 | Christian Beckwith Writings
We are homo sapiens, the comfort seekers. In the forty thousand years of our existence, we have walked from the desert toward shelter and sustenance. Now, if we’re lucky, we enjoy lives of abundance, but our excess has created an imbalance in the world.Something...
