Jam Crack Climbing Podcast features John Long

Legendary US climber and storyteller, major star of Yosemite climbing in the 1970s, the archetypical Stonemaster, and author of Icarus Syndrome, John Long is featured in conversation with Niall Grimes on the Jam Crack Climbing Podcast. 

John was at the heart of some of the finest events in US climbing throughout the 1970s and went on to chronicle these in his short stories then to carve a career in literature and adventure writing. Big guy, big fun.

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ICARUS SYNDROME
Taking risks and exploring the unknown are as vital to human beings as our need for air, for growth, for affirmation that we exist for something. These 19 stories reach deep into humanity’s compulsion for the rush of new experiences. But gently, because it’s not only records we might shatter. When does adventure turn to recklessness? What happens when we toe the edge above the void and face the big silence, where we might see God -- and die without warning? The Icarus Syndrome seeks to capture our push for more and hold it to the light, lofty and free, for as long as we dare tempt the downward slip. Both are possible; only one is assured.

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