There was a viral photo last week, showing what appeared to be hundreds of people waiting in line on the summit ridge of Mount Everest.
I won’t share that photo here, as I haven’t paid for it. …
Morocco’s culture, Instagram tourism, and what’s not on the pictures
Does that alley look familiar? If you follow any travel-themed Instagram accounts, it should.
This is Chefchaouen, Morocco, a.k.a. “The Blue City” or “The Blue Pearl.”
Chefchaouen (or just “Chaouen,” as the locals call it) is a small town nestled in the Rif Mountains of northern Morocco. The entire medina…
This is a creative nonfiction piece about the calculated risks we take in life and love, told through the lenses of travel and climbing.
‘So, I have to ask: what is this? What are we?’
‘Let’s just try and keep things light,’ she had replied, and my heart dropped out of my body.
She was a charming Italian woman I’d dropped…
In the course of my job, I read a lot about cryptocurrency. Really. Like, too much. And for a long time, I barely understood any of it. DeFi? Blockchains? Staking? Hashing? As someone who is definitively ‘not a math guy’, I let it all wash over me.
“Remote” backcountry place popular with climbers, backpackers, and fisherfolk.
I write “remote” in quotes because there were easily over 100 cars in the Big Sandy Trailhead parking lot when I arrived. A bit shocking after an hour spent driving in on “Am I in the right place?” …
USA is over the coronavirus.
Last year was “the lost summer”.
This year, in America, we will have the most playful summer of our lives.
It feels good to be on top, for once.
Since March of 2020, Americans have watched our countrymen die in huge numbers, the virus become politicized, seen our passports fall from one of the…
Rock climbing is going through some changes these days, with the explosive rise of indoor climbing gyms, joining the Olympics as a competition sport, and the popularity of bouldering. It’s easy to be confused when someone tells you they’re a ‘climber’ — this could entail any number of different activities.
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A spring walk up to the Chasm Lake Cirque, below Longs Peak in Colorado.
I had a few days off work at the end of last week, and decided to head up into Rocky Mountain National Park, my local mountain playground.
I misjudged the amount of snow present in the…
The Museum of Broken Relationships is dedicated to objects. Objects as symbols of love lost, and hearts broken.
What reminds you of your former lovers?
I visited this museum in Zagreb, Croatia, four years ago. It was on the list of tourist activities at the hostel, and at the moment…
Dan Kay
Medium senior curator. Always adventurous. Occasionally political. I write creative stories about life, love, climbing and travel. thisisyouth.org
