89 Wired

Posted on: July 10, 2013


From 1961 to 1962, Huntley Ingalls and Layton Kor made first ascents of the most prominent desert spires, including Castleton Tower, the Titan and Standing Rock. The writer Chris Van Leuven meets Ingalls in a Boulder cafe and finds that the former mathematician has a lot to teach us all about the nature of climbing, entropy, time and courage.

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