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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

A humbling deflower

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Derek Cheng

Published in Ski and Snow, June 2016 The mind was willing, but the body was not. My thighs trembled with fatigue as I tried to release my skis from a prison of deep powder. They stubbornly refused to move, an edge … Continue reading →

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