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Will Mayo

Posted on: October 23, 2014

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[Illustration] Andreas Schmidt

As a young man, Will Mayo became obsessed with the philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard. Little did he know that the writings of this nineteenth-century Danish existentialist would become his guide as he struggles to understand the dilemmas of the modern climbing world and the darkness in his imagination.

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