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A 2020 Repost for The CUT. The keystone of 'The Story' of the millennium, now set in The CUT. Find it in the main article, with PDF downloads (including the original 2002 version), connecting links and descriptions: The Memoir of the Millennium.
Photo blog October 2018. Originally posted to Facebook. Team Selfie. Darryl Steel, Darryl Best, Mark Schafer, Gwilym Griffith-Jones. Centennial Hut, Westland National Park, Aotearoa NZ, Spring 1997. Winners are grinners. The human race, does it get any better than this? After the run Schaf and I had just skied it was hard to comprehend. It …
A Pipe Dream Sparks? Continued... (An Introduction) Mark was leaving. I was bummed. His course was finishing in a few weeks. He had some work lined up starting later in spring, abseiling or something. Before that he was hitting the road in the Bluebird and was going to do some hardcore backcountry sessions. So I was going to be on my own again, with no crew, trying to adjust to a ‘normal’ life...
The beginning of The Memoir of the Millennium. The 2020 New Year reformatted version.
December 2019: It was one score years ago...
December 2019: It was one score years ago... (Posted to Facebook 9/12/2019 at 12 noon AEDT, 11 minutes before the NZ White Island Volcanic Eruption (01:11 UTC), at the conclusion of the "Flame Zone Dream Build" Winter/Spring 2019 mission.) Is she out there? Dead or alive? Don’t worry. I only want her head on a …
Continue reading "We Need To Talk About Yasmine El Orfi (Part One)"
The week before Easter 2002, I wrote about 9/11 for the first time. I had become stranded in the capital and had time to reflect on what I'd done and what had happened to me and I was having difficulty processing it. Writing it down didn't help. It was just as much of a mindfuck …
