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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

Suffering in Silence

Cover story in CANVAS Magazine, Weekend Herald, August 10, 2013 (no longer available on the NZ Herald website) by Derek Cheng A pain burns up my leg to my knee, where it concentrates on the bone as if someone is … Continue reading

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