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About Derek Cheng

Derek Cheng is a journalist and photographer whose work has appeared in publications in several countries, including the US, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the UK. Since he discovered climbing about ten years ago, he has worked as little as possible so he can travel widely, chasing rock faces in all corners of the world - from stalactite-blessed limestone in China, to the alpine granite of the Bugaboos and the Sierra Nevada, to quartzite giants in Morocco. His work can be viewed at dirtbagdispatches.com

Dirtbag dispatches – Intestinal Misadventures of the Vertical World

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Derek Cheng

Published in New Zealand Adventure Magazine, Oct/Nov 2017 One moment, I was sitting on a rock ledge, 30m off the ground, overlooking the most perfectly turquoise of oceans. Serene and blissful as the Dalai Lama getting a shoulder rub in a … Continue reading →

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