Who is the biggest badass to ever drag you around out in the wild?
Doug Schitzpahn
I went canyoneering with Rich Rudow and Todd Martin in the Grand Canyon. It felt so safe to be rappelling after “hiking” on fall-and-die terrain with them.
Elizabeth O’Connell
My grandad used to take me and my cousins out to hike and build forts. He was the biggest badass that I’ve ever known. Jim shared his passion and inspired his grandchildren to respect the wild.
Cameron Martindell
Two for me: a short day trip of ice climbing with Estes Park resident badass Eli Helmuth, owner of Climbing Life Guides, and climbing Mt. Rainier with Lou Whittaker back in the 1990s when I was working for MountainZone.com.
Joseph Risi
This old guy named Lou Dawson took me skiing high above a marble quarry in Colorado. I was a third his age but he skinned like an over-caffeinated child with a new puppy. I, on the other hand, tattooed the skintrack with my breakfast burrito.
Max Lowe
My dad Conrad Anker has been dragging me into wilder and wilder places over the years, and his badassery has not diminished.. At 50, he climbed Everest without oxygen. He completed Meru the year before, and this year he is working on some other impossibly torturous and suffer-congested climb in the remote Himalaya with young gun David Lama.
Tom Winter
I was chasing Shane McConkey around in Portillo, Chile. Our feet were swollen from traveling, so we both were in amazing pain in our ski boots. But McConkey made it fun, even with the pain. He always made skiing fun.
