Adventure
A fighter’s chance
Colorado native Tate Zandstra has chased martial arts training and reporting as far as Brazil, to study Jiu Jitsu, and Thailand, to study Muay Thai, so it comes as no surprise, really, that when a Burmese maid in Chiang Mai, a city in northern Thailand, started ...
Boulder author recounts how hiking the Pacific Crest Trail changed her...
Boulder-based author Gail Storey’s nonfiction book I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail recently won the 2013 National Outdoor Book Award for best outdoor literature. In it, she recounts a summer of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail (...
World’s highest, fastest freefall set for Oct. 8
Felix Baumgartner has been preparing for Monday, Oct. 8 for years...
A 4-year-old kid just skied every month for a year
Charlie Leckonby is a skier. And, like most hardcore skiers, he’s always up for a trip to the hill to make some turns. So...
Elevated Reflections on the fourmile fire
One of the more poignant memoirs I’ve read concerns a group of French soldiers in World War I. The men lost their way en route to the battlefield and mistakenly ascended a high, steep ridge. From that unintentionally safe vantage point, they witnessed the horrendous ...
Professional at a higher level
Ryan Waters is crossing through a wet valley high in central Nepal, en route to his next objective — climbing Dhaulagiri, the world’s seventh-highest peak. Between five-minute intervals on his satellite phone, Waters talked with Boulder Weekly about his record-...
When the body breaks, but the spirit survives
At 8:30 a.m. on the day Jim Harris turned 33, he was still lying in bed. It wasn’t how he imagined spending his birthday....
