My neighbour, Phil, told me about this documentary showing at our local theatre, The Fritz. It was about an amazing rock climber and mountaineer who made an incredible number of first ascents of mountains in North America. I was struck by the difference, or graduation, between “focus” and “obsession”. Fred Beckey achieved what he did because he was obsessed about climbing new routes and thus singularly focused on this desire…or was he? Continue reading “Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey”