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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

Escalado Latino

Published in the NZ Climber Magazine, third quarter 2010   There’s a lot of rock in the Andes between Chile and Argentina, and two months is barely enough to scratch the surface, as NZ climber Derek Cheng finds out.   … Continue reading

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