A hard truth is still a truth.Becoming a better climber isn't only about adding more weight to your max hang on a fingerboard or being able to deadlift 2x bodyweight. Frankly, what's more important is that you understand your motivations, your approach, and that you're honest with yourself about the amount of effort you put in - both on and off the wall.This collection of essays, written over many years for The Power Company Climbing blog, will shine a light on those qualities that limit us the most. The qualities that are hard to measure but simple to manage. Simple that is, when backed with intention.These essays are written about real climbers in real situations. Maybe you know some of them.Maybe it's you.
How do you become the best climber you can be?You dream big. You plan your trip and pack your bag. You get on the climb. You try. You make mistakes. You adjust. You fall off and pull back on and fall off again. You care enough to ask why. You learn.You adapt. Over and over again.Starting with the inflection point that eventually led to his goal to climb one hundred 5.13's, climbing coach Kris Hampton, in Adapt, digs deep into the decisions made, hurdles confronted, and lessons learned. He highlights his mistakes as well as his successes, and offers ways that we can set valuable goals and avoid those same pitfalls.With failure and improvement as his catalysts, Kris reached that goal on the morning of his 50th birthday."Through it all, I've dreamed. I've tried. I've made mistakes and tried again. I've asked why. I've learned a lot of lessons. I've adapted."This is that story. These are those lessons.
The story of Santa Claus is finally here In this rich novel, the remarkable story of Kris restores the hero of readers' youth in the compelling tale of a man who, amidst his greatest struggles, gave to others. This compelling tale will transport readers into the mind of Kris as he grows from tragic boyhood experiences into the inspiring man who brings joy every Christmas season. The plague-ridden Norwegian countryside lays the setting for Kris's unexpected beginnings where he is forced to find homes for his seven orphaned brothers and sisters. Driven by loyalty and feelings of failure, this first delivery launches Kris through his young life in search of redemption. He becomes apprenticed to a carpenter and meets an extraordinary girl who makes him a unique red jacket. But there are reindeer to discover and a people the Norwegians refer to as elves, not to mention chimneys and cookies and stockings hung by the fire. The world has heard many stories about Santa. Here, for the first time, is Santa's story.
Kris är en modern klassiker om ungdom, sexualitet och tro. När studenten Malin upptäcker att hon har känslor för en studiekamrat ställs hennes världsåskådning på ända. Karin Boye var en svensk poet, författare och översättare. Hon är en av Sveriges mest älskade författare med läsare i alla åldrar. Hon var som mest verksam under 30-talet, och lämnade efter sig en enastående samling av litteratur. Av hennes prosaverk har den dystopiska science fiction-romanen Kallocain blivit den mest uppmärksammade.
Den tjugoåriga Malin Frost är student på folkskoleseminariet i Stockholm. När hon förälskar sig i studiekamraten Liv hamnar hon i en djup existentiell kris som får henne att ifrågasätta sin tro och hela sin tillvaro. Kris [1934] var Karin Boyes tredje roman, efter Astarte [1931] och Merit vaknar [1933]. I en tid när homosexualitet fortfarande var olaglig skriver hon personligt och ingående om kärleken mellan två unga kvinnor och går till hårt angrepp mot samhällets och kyrkans rådande ideal.KARIN BOYE [1900-1941] var poet, kritiker och författare, en förgrundsgestalt inom den svenska modernismen och än i dag internationellt känd för romanen Kallocain med dess dystopiska framtidsskildring.
Kris (1934) handlar om Malin Forst, Karin Boyes alter ego. Forst är ung och hängivet gudstroende, hon hamnar i en depression som hon tolkar religiöst. Hon upplever inte längre en gudsnärvaro. Forst blir förälskad i en kvinna för första gången, vilket dämpar hennes samvetskval och oro. Kris är ett modernistiskt formexperiment som varvar två olika typer av partier. I det ena får vi följa Malins inre liv och utveckling. I andra stycken är olika livshållningar representerade; läsaren når även kunskap om Forsts liv via insprängda prosadikter, citat ur brev och dagböcker... För de som tidigare endast stiftat bekantskap med Boyes poesipärlor utgör Kris en utmärkt introduktion till hennes prosa.
KARIN BOYE kom ut med denna sin tredje roman Kris 1934. Den är ett modernistiskt formexperiment. Hon kände ett inre tvång att skriva romanen och försöka förstå sig på sina egna inre kval. Malin Forst är ett alter ego i romanen. Boken kom ut tretton år efter de egentliga händelserna. Karin Boye hade tagit studenten och började på lärarseminariet. Under året, i sin sena tonårstid, drabbades hon av både fysiska och psykiska kval. Hon var djärv som satte sig upp mot olika auktoriteter. När det i Sverige fortfarande var olagligt med homosexualitet bejakade Malin Forst sin förälskelse i en studiekamrat. Och när hon var en av den kvinnliga rektorns favoritelever trotsade hon ändå henne, hon hävdade att psykologi var viktigare än kristendom. Uppgörelsen med den bokstavstrogna religionen eskalerade under seminarieåret. Extramaterialet i denna specialutgåva är två förord, det ena av LENNART KOSKINEN, före detta biskop på Gotland, och det andra av BIRGITTA HOLM, professor i litteraturvetenskap vid Uppsala universitet. Också brev och dikter av Karin Boye ingår, precis som funderingar författarkollegan HARRY MARTINSON hade om Karin Boyes livssituation. KARIN BOYE (1900-1941) tillhör våra klassiska författare, både med ofta citerade dikter och romanen Kallocain. När hon vann ett nordiskt pris 1931 för sin debutroman Astarte var hon en etablerad författare. Snart följde fler romaner, bland annat Kris, och sist men inte minst Kallocain. På Lindelöws bokförlag finns också ett urval av hennes mer okända noveller, med titeln Snäckors sorl. Plus de tre romanerna.
Kris Longknife is back in the good graces of the brass--and to demonstrate that, they've promoted her to Admiral. Now her mission is to find the home base of the space pirates who are plaguing the fringes of the galaxy. But no mission is ever simple when your name is Longknife. And this time the complications range from the military to the personal, as Kris finds herself--reluctantly--having to make some command decisions about her future...
Kris Longknife can kick, shoot, and punch her way out of any dangerous situation, * and her latest adventure in the New York Times bestelling series is as perilous as they come... Despite her role as a fleet Admiral and protector of a planetary system, Kris is still beholden to her great grandfather King Raymond s commands. She has been personally selected for a mission that, should she succeed, will save millions of lives. The Peterwald Empire is in the midst of civil war. On one side is the tyrannical Empress, on the other is the last person Kris ever wants to see again Grand Duchess Vicky Peterwald. Due to their shared history, the Emperor believes Kris can mediate between the factions and bring about peace. But before Kris even begins her mission, she survives multiple assassination attempts on her family home world. Someone doesn t want her interfering in the Empire s affairs. Kris immediately suspects Vicky or the Empress, only to learn that it could also be a traitor among her own people... *Sci Fi magazine"
Kris Longknife is a daughter of privilege, born to money and power. Her father is the Prime Minister of her home planet, her mother the consummate politician's wife. She's been raised only to be beautiful and to marry well. But the heritage of the military Longknifes courses through Kris's blood--and, against her parents' objections, she enlists in the marines. She has a lot to live up to and a lot to prove in the long-running struggle between her powerful family, a highly defensive--and offensive--Earth, and the hundreds of warring colonies. And then an ill-conceived attack brings the war close to home, putting Kris's life on the line. Now she has only one choice: certain death on the front lines of rim space--or mutiny...
A search for her lost friend leads Kris Longknife, the female space warrior, into Turantic, a galactic hellhole with no way out that has been placed under quarantine because of a deadly plague. Original.
As part of an agenda to oust her father from his political position, Kris Longknife is relieved of command. But when an alien enemy launches an invasion, she defies both government and military authority to lead a rag-tag fleet against the threat.
Followed by trouble at every turn, Kris Longknife, commander of the remote system of Chance, captures the pirates responsible for sabotaging the buoys that mark the jump points of interstellar travel, exposing the location of a miraculous technology that she must risk her life to protect. Original.
Kris Longknife has been assigned to The Wasp, the best warship beyond the Rim of Human Space. But while hunting for pirates, Kris stumbles upon something. It's a plan to kill one of the members of the aristocratic Peterwald family--and the would-be killers are setting her up as the assassin.
Kris Longknife encounters some peaceful aliens who have come to warn humanity of an unidentifiable force that is roaming the galaxy, obliterating everything in its path-a path now leading directly toward the human worlds.
Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife has precise orders: seek out, engage, and destroy pirates, slavers, and drug lords operating beyond the rim of human space-without interfering in Peterwald family affairs. But when slavers kidnap a twelve-year-old girl, Kris's mission becomes personal. And if destroying the pirate compound flattens some Peterwald interests-well, to hell with politics.
