brad rassler

Your Favorite Extreme Athlete is Moonlighting as a Motivational Speaker

A look into how and why adventure athletes evolved into motivational speakers for big industry.

The Majesty Polarity

An essay/profile teasing out the late Michael Strassman's views on sustainable adventure, or majesty, and ambitious, risk-taking mountaineering, or glory.

Explanatory Profile

Searching for Jensen

A search to uncover the true story of the late mountaineer Don Jensen's life.

Alta Journal, Print and Online: This Place Belongs to You

Outside Magazine Online Feature: Leaving the Grace of This World

Mining a Richer Vein

Alta Journal, Print and Online: This Place Belongs to You

Outside Magazine Online Feature: “I Write for Katie”: How Katie Ives Climbs Mountains at ‘Alpinist’

Outside Magazine Online Feature: Leaving the Grace of This World

The Telemarking Snow Farmer of Central Appalachia

Nordic Norms, or Finding Friluftsliv

Into the Heart of Patagonia’s Secret Archives

Outside Magazine Online: Antisemitic Statements by a Climbing Pioneer Prompt the American Alpine Club to Rename a Prestigious Honor

Outside Magazine Online Feature: Leaving the Grace of This World

Sacrifice, Grief, and the Outdoor Athlete in the Time of COVID-19

Outside Magazine Online: Antisemitic Statements by a Climbing Pioneer Prompt the American Alpine Club to Rename a Prestigious Honor

Outside Magazine Online Feature: Leaving the Grace of This World

Figures on a Landscape

Outside Magazine Online: Antisemitic Statements by a Climbing Pioneer Prompt the American Alpine Club to Rename a Prestigious Honor

Sacrifice, Grief, and the Outdoor Athlete in the Time of COVID-19

Your Favorite Extreme Athlete is Moonlighting as a Motivational Speaker

The Greening of Alex Honnold

The Adventure Gap and Narratives of Inclusion

Art of the Wild: Gessner, Stegner, and Abbey

The Alchemist

Abbey’s Back

mountaineering

Your Favorite Extreme Athlete is Moonlighting as a Motivational Speaker

The Majesty Polarity

Searching for Jensen