May 15, 2018.
During that time, even as staff members have come and gone, myself included, I’ve almost without exception found them to be passionate, active climbers who have a long history with the sport—we’re lifers. The meme focused on the different ways we define ourselves—rock climber, kayaker, emergency room doctor, graphic designer, and so on—and how those definitions interface with common misperceptions and our reality.I don’t know if anyone did one for climbing-magazine editors, but they should have.
to pull together a story, which is how such things have always been done in journalism, whether it focuses on climbing or not. We love the sport and we care.Despite what some might think, these aren’t high-paying jobs nor are they that secure: The size of a magazine’s staff is tied directly to how much money it brings in, which with small-circulation publications like The nature of deadline work does mean that we have to be in the office a fair bit, especially during the final two weeks of deadline. I write this not to solicit pity but to point out a certain reality. Can three people possibly be “in touch” with all goings-on across the globe in climbing? Whether you’re going solo, oxygen-free on an unclimbed couloir on an 8,000-meter giant, putting up a V23, headpointing 5.15 X, or simply redlining on your first Indian Creek 5.10, you are engaged in a learning, growth-oriented process that calls on all of your skills to succeed. I’d love to hear a strong philosophical argument that this is the case that doesn't come off as elitist hogwash.As journalists, of course, we don’t have firsthand experience of everything, nor would this ever be possible (see point no. that only the truly elite will ever “get” it—is, well, an elitist argument. And anyone who has ever pushed herself on the rock or ice or in the mountains can certainly understand what it feels like to be “out there,” whether “out there” is 5.9 or 5.14.The other part of the equation—that some of these newsworthy ascents took so much time and training and beta refinement, etc.
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So there: There’s at least one.) And invariably, we’re going to hear about it, usually via an email sent late on a weekend night when the complainant has a righteous buzz on or a gaggle of friends urging him on. Probably not. But we can use tools like interviews, research, guidebooks, websites, social media, etc.