Prelude The past month of mountain adventuring has won me a lot of confidence. I didn't bring my crampons and ice axe on this trip b...

Two weeks ago I wrote about the downsides of traveling alone as a woman , about unsettling experiences with ill-intentioned strangers, and ...

Strangers are friends you haven't met yet. When I told a dear German friend of mine that I was going to be in S. America, starting ...