The Shadow of the Real

Ola Sandstig

Posted on: September 1, 2005


Alain Mesili's story was compelling: revolutionary, romantic, alpinist. But in the process of recording it, one journalist learned that the grandfather of Bolivian climbing left more than a little to the imagination.

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