Press Play with Madeleine Brand
What’s the value of adventuring and extreme risk?
David Roberts has spent several decades climbing mountains. He’s mentored Jon Krakauer, and co-wrote free-climber Alex Honnold’s memoir. In 2015, he was diagnosed with throat cancer.
By Madeleine Brand • • 48m ListenDavid Roberts on the then unclimbed South Ridge of the Angel, Revelation Mountains, Alaska, 1967. Photo credit: Matt Hale.
