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If you Know How Many Guns You Have, You Don't Have Enough
The best place to meet hardly anyone local in a new town is in a truck stop shower line, we discovered, having gone 9 days without a...

Erin Newton
Jan 23, 202113 min read


Short Desert Winter Days Make for Long Winter Nights
I’ll go ahead and put the lesson we learned on the front end, in case you’re just looking for the take home and want to get back to your...

Erin Newton
Jan 15, 20217 min read


Matterhorn via the Liograt Route: The Italian side Less Seen
August 17, 2009 Climbing, summiting, and most importantly, getting safely down Monte Cervino (pronounced Ch-er-vino), known to most of...
Erin H. Newton
Sep 8, 201711 min read


Mount Aspiring Summit at Sunrise, the Little Matterhorn of the South
June 3, 2002 Sitting here listening to Kenny Rodgers, "You picked a fine time to leave me Lucile" and watching Daniel's pup on his...
Erin H. Newton
Sep 8, 20178 min read


Climbing Mount Cook: A Small Epic
February, 2001 Looking back two years later, the smell of wet wool blankets, walking exhausted on a glacial moraine, and the mention of...
Erin H. Newton
Aug 27, 201717 min read


Back to the Climbers Ranch with Dad after Bi-Lateral Mastectomies
2008 I wasn't supposed to lift anything for months after being diagnosed with cancer at 27 years old and having bilateral mastectomies at...
Erin H. Newton
Aug 27, 20178 min read


Denali or Bust
Denali or Bust By Erin Hilary Newton June 19 – June 28, 2010 A story about suffering, even when everything comes out right in the end,...
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Aug 24, 201712 min read