photo credit: Nevada Tumbleweed
David Page of Men’s Journal articulates the wonders and hard work required in scaling Telescope Peak, Death Valley’s tallest mountain, with his brother-in-law and a handful of big-mountain skiers:
“We’ve been at it for five hours already, eight tiny specks, skis on our backs climbing up and out of the desert in the dark, on the scantest of game trails. We’ve watched the moon rise and the distant glow of Vegas 100 miles away give way to the dawn. We’ve had blood drawn by the local flora. We’re nowhere near the halfway mark, and yet we’re exactly where we want to be: on our way to ski something that none of us—and who knows, maybe no one in the world—has ever skied.”
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