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STICK TOGETHER 3 Apr 2013 | 10:50 pm
Vicious cold burned my gasping lungs as I strained to pull oxygen from the mountain air. Rescuing this unconscious climber from the upper slopes of Mount McKinley (20,320 feet) would push us to our p...
BE READY TO BE A GOOD PARTNER 26 Mar 2013 | 11:30 pm
During my 31 years of climbing high, icy mountains, I’ve learned a lot about picking good partners, and (hopefully) about being a good partner. When climbing in remote locales, your partners are not ...
Setting Goals for 2013 2 Jan 2013 | 04:43 am
To kick off the new year right I went for a morning hike on January 1, 2013. It can be tough to find hiking partners at 8 AM on the morning after New Years Eve, so I took along my black … Continue rea...
Return to Rainier – The Most Important Moments (part 2) 9 Aug 2012 | 04:13 am
Often the deeper meanings of our activities are not apparent to those around us and, sometimes, even to ourselves. But on a recent climb, the motivations for my actions, and those of my friends, were...
Return to Rainier – The Best Moments and the Scariest (part 1) 6 Aug 2012 | 09:32 pm
I’ve just returned from Rainier. Going back to climb the mountain that took my friend’s life, and nearly killed me, means this trip was very important to me and my teammates. In addition to the usual...
A Very Full Pack 29 Jul 2012 | 12:55 pm
Twenty years ago, I flew home from Mount Rainier alone. I had lost my good friend and partner, Mike. I was battered and shattered, and uncertain if I could ever go back to Rainier again. In six hou...
Return to Rainier 20 Jul 2012 | 10:31 pm
I’m going back to Mount Rainier. Back to the mountain that nearly killed me, and tragically did take the life of my good friend and climbing partner, Mike Price. As you may know, in June 1992, Mike ...
Inspired by National Geographic 28 Feb 2012 | 05:59 pm
In our Massachusetts basement, my parents kept an iconic collection of adventure literature: National Geographic magazines. Our collection started in the late 1950s and stretched about 15 years, fill...
Making an Episode of I Shouldn’t Be Alive 22 Apr 2011 | 05:47 am
In the studio of the Roaring Success Radio Hour - Paul Neal Rohrer (L), Bill Greene & Jim Davidson (R) The Animal Planet TV show “I Shouldn’t Be Alive” is very popular, so after the “Killer Crevasse”...
Resilience, not Resistance – Filming ‘I Shouldn’t Be Alive’ 24 Jan 2011 | 08:36 am
The cavernous room was dark. I struggled not to squint at the bright stage lamps streaming light against my face and eyes. From the twilight edge of my vision, just left of the huge video camera, the ...
