January 9, 2021

29 – Silent Partners

PodcastBy Luke January 9, 2021 Leave a comment

A remembrance of our fallen comrades, as well as the long gone friendships. Originally published in The Climbing Zine Book. This link will get you 25% off anything in our online store: https://shop.climbingzine.com/discount/DIRTBAG%2520PODCAST Read more stories/watch videos/explore: http://www.climbingzine.com

From Midas’s Touch to A Green Thumb: Remembering Doug Tompkins by Joy Martin

Climbing CultureBy Luke January 9, 2021 Leave a comment

Doug Tompkins opens the door to a South American summer evening. At seventy-one—stooped and shuffling, a button-down shirt tucked into khakis and held up with a leather belt—he’s not exactly the climbing jock he once was. Looking up through kind, brown eyes, he shakes hands with us, and then he walks us into his stone-cottage…