Sublime

from a fraternity brother who had moved

Military pacification of the frontier opened the way for the climbers, and the mountaineers, in turn, elevated their soldier escorts into the rarefied world of the climber.

They were beckoning mountains with a brown grass love.

That we couldn’t go down only made easier that which we really wanted to do. That we might not get there was scarcely conceivable.

Even staid, prissy Thoreau, who famously declared that it was enough to have “traveled a good deal in Concord,” felt compelled to visit the more fearsome wilds of nineteenth-century Maine and climb Mt. Katahdin. His ascent of the peak’s “savage and awful, though beautiful” ramparts shocked and frightened him, but it also induced a giddy sort of awe

escarpment

Since 2016, the Savannah Bananas—an independent-league baseball team playing out of Savannah, Georgia—have operated by a single mission: Fans First, Entertain Always. Every decision we make, we ask if it’s Fans First. If it’s not, we don’t do it.