Posts Tagged: life

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Oct 11

Mountain Spirit

Ear­lier this year I had the amaz­ing oppor­tu­nity to visit Peru to explore a story about moun­tain guides. How­ever, when I arrived there and started work­ing on it, I real­ized there was an even deeper story.

Being in the Andes reminded me about what I love the moun­tains. The Andes are mag­nif­i­cent, not only in their beauty, but also in the peo­ple that live & work there. I was inspired not only by the com­pany of our group but sim­ply by the energy that exists there. In the moun­tains, daily tasks are ori­ented toward food, shel­ter, sleep, and com­mu­nity. There is more space to reflect & appre­ci­ate. It is in that space, change can happen.

When I asked Julio why he was guid­ing, he talked about a change he saw in peo­ple after vis­it­ing the Andes and I instantly under­stood. Being a guide myself, I’ve seen it as well. It is one of the most amaz­ing expe­ri­ences to be a part of. I was intrigued how this drew him into guid­ing. The story that unfolded was of fam­ily, strug­gle, and inspi­ra­tion. I found it a lit­tle dif­fi­cult to con­vey in a 5 minute spot, but you can watch it here.

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13
Apr 11

Hello Spring, is that you?

Wow, happy Spring every­one! April already? I can’t believe it.

This win­ter I worked on so many side projects, I barely had time to write. Nonethe­less, I’ve been work­ing on some very fun things!
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2
Aug 10

The photo backlog

One of the down­sides of spend­ing most of my free time out­doors is the photo back­log piles up quickly. Seri­ously, I do no know how all the guides have time to be in the field AND write blog posts. Well, I guess they also don’t have a desk job. Hmm.… well, any­way, I finally took a week­end off and decided to start work­ing through some of the back­log from this spring. Feels good to finally get some of this posted… though you don’t want to know about how deep the video back­log is. Next post will be on some more recent trips this summer.

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Jul 10

Rest in Peace, my friend

I came out of the moun­tains to the news that a friend died. She was 32. Com­pletely shocked and sad­dened, I won­dered why life is full of so much death. I re-questioned all the risks I take in life. Climb­ing is a dan­ger­ous sport. Even though I work to mit­i­gate those dan­gers, acci­dents can and will happen.

Per­haps death is there to remind us about life. What is life with­out some risk, with­out pas­sion to do what you love, and liv­ing to do it? We all must mea­sure what accept­able risk is. A walk, a ride, a climb, a jump. A per­son can be struck dead cross­ing the street. The real­ity is we have no idea how long we have and in many cases, it’s shorter than we think. If I want to take away some­thing pos­i­tive from an oth­er­wise tragic end, it’s that every moment is pre­cious — so seize it, because you may not get that sec­ond chance.

Let death remind us of life … that every moment is precious.

Rest in peace, my friend. You will be missed.