jonny copp

Almost a year after the passing of two of climbing’s most charismatic personalities, Jonny Copp and Micah Dash, friends and fellow climbers are still producing tributes in honor of the duo. While their death was tragic, the overwhelming reaction to the loss of the climbers has been positive and has… Read the rest

Days before his tragic death while attempting to climb Mt. Edgar in China last June, renowned alpinist Jonny Copp tapped into his poetic side and penned his last poem, Border Country. The poem is strangely foreboding of the tragedy to ensue several days later.

Here it comes to take me … Read the rest

Last spring, the climbing community lost two prolific alpinists, Micah Dash and Jonny Copp, along with filmmaker Wade Johnson to an avalanche in China. Copp and Dash were well-respected for their light and fast alpine style and more so for their innate ability to bring back captivating (and often humorous)… Read the rest

I never know how to write about this. What kind of epitaph do you write for people that died on a mountain in China, that you didn’t know personally, but have admired from a distance? I don’t know. I just know that it hurts. I just know that there is… Read the rest