PART THREE Is there politics involved in the sense that maybe speed climbing does not necessarily have the "cool" label as far as kids are concerned compared to, say, skateboarding or...

PART TWO My best memory of watching your travails was seeing you hit the big red button on top and floating down with your arms above your head and your fists pumping after another victory . . . Give...

PART ONE Speed climbing is a different kind of sports activity. It combines many of the traditional aspects of rock climbing, but adds a competitive and "fast-twitch" vibration that etches...

Back at the ruins . . . a student group is consumed by the downpour. Both the group and its eccentric guide are drenched and wearing frowns. The Zapotec people must have known these kind of heavenly...

It feels like stepping into the past to be among the ruins of an ancient civilization of people. The emotions invoked from this experience must dwell somewhere deep within the subconscious of the...