by Timmy ONeil
November 8, 2010
A pre-screening of 127 Hours, director Danny Boyle’s new, squirm-inducing film about Aron Ralston’s famed story of self-amputation in the Moab desert, has the audience falling to the floor. I am pushing myself deeply into a high backed theater chair, when I hear the unmistakable sound of a human body crumpling to the floor. On [...]
by Timmy ONeil
June 4, 2009
When a climber decides to take his disabled brother up Yosemite’s big walls, he gets a first-hand look at his sibling’s grit and learns a lesson about impermanence. What compels a big-wall climber to leave the relative safety of the ground to live for days on the side of a rock wall enduring a regimen [...]
