“This well-plotted survival tale about climbing partners and a deadly fall into a crevasse will certainly slake your 127 Hours craving, but it is a unique book on its own, avoiding the thumping cliches of the ‘rock climbing is dangerous’ genre.”
– NPR raves about The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier
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Thanks for stopping by kevinvaughan.net — my new virtual home. I hope you explore a bit — th
ere’s all kinds of stuff to see — and that you find the visit an enjoyable one.
I’m just getting started, and I’ve got a lot to learn about operating a website, but I envision this as a place where we can talk about writing, both the process and specific projects, such as The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier that I co-authored with Fort Collins climber Jim Davidson. It is scheduled to be released July 26 by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House.
I know from a quarter century of practice that writing can be an exasperating thing. The great sportswriter Red Smith has been quoted as saying: “There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”
But there’s also nothing quite like the written word.
I envision this as a place where I can point out work that I think is noteworthy — particularly narrative newspaper and magazine writing — and lead an ongoing discussion about storytelling in a variety of platforms. I envision it as a place where I can shed some light on this crazy thing we call writing, this thing which drives so many of us nuts for hours or days on end and which is also exciting, challenging and — when the words are flowing — even a little bit like fun.
And I envision it as a place where I can learn something from the people who stop by.
Stay as long as you’d like. Click around — you’ll find details on the upcoming book, on my Denver Post projects, and even on my cramped, cluttered home office, where I write by the light of a desk lamp with a green shade.
