Author Archives: Crystal Rose H.

 This article also available as a podcast here. Part III: “Counterculture”   In the early 2000’s, around the time of the first Black ascents of Too-tok-ah-noo-lah, a climber named Chris Sharma was on the rise. He had started climbing around 1983: only 16 years after the last edition of the Negroe Travellers Green Book published. HisContinueContinue reading “Hip Hop in Climbing: Part III”

This article also available as a podcast here. Part II: The Birth of Climbing    The hippie movement began in the 1960’s and found its peak in the Vietnam War in 1965. “The vast majority of hippies were young, white, middle-class men and women who felt alienated from mainstream middle-class society and resented the pressure toContinueContinue reading “Hip Hop in Climbing: Part II”

This article also available as a podcast here. Part I: Setting the Stage “With coloured pigmentation you must accept that your historically pivotal leaders will more than likely be killed With darker pigmentation you become an example of exoticism under a western microscope Elements of your identity appropriated and then sold back to you, soldContinueContinue reading “Hip Hop in Climbing: Part I”

Smith Rock, Oregon. Rightful land of the The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs This article also available as a podcast here. I finished my first full length article in December of 2020. You will read it in the next post. Today is April of 2021. The road to writing the article was a long one,ContinueContinue reading “How, Why: The Beginning”