Travel

• February 2009
• Climb

Thanks Sender Films for this great video clip! By pure luck, Pete Mortimer and Nick Rosen were in position when I sent Concepcion–so they captured some full-on yelling and screaming. Dean made the first ascent of Concepcion and did not rate it. I also have no idea of difficulty–for me, it was just really hard […]

• February 2009
• Climb

I’m taking a trip to Boulder this week! I’ll be giving a slide show called “High Places” this Thursday night at Neptune Mountaineering in Boulder. The show is about free soloing (the Diamond and Castleton), learning to skydive, wingsuit and BASE jump, and what all these things have in common–namely, dealing with fear.

• February 2009
• Simple Living

[audio:https://stephdavis.co/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/01-release-the-pressure.mp3] Leftfield “Leftism” Release the Pressure In Arizona there is a lot of open space, like Utah, like Wyoming, like Montana. The Grand Canyon is a massive gash into the earth, shooting sub-canyons off into every direction. For a BASE jumper, it’s the promised land.

• January 2009
• Hi Steph

[audio:https://stephdavis.co/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/01-work-that.mp3] Mary J. Blige Growing Pains “Work That” Dear Steph, it was many years ago, I had in my hand a copy of Climbing or Rock&Ice…. I was a student and of course a climber too… I saw this advertising about Choices: “Steph Davis, accepted at law school ” etc…