Mark Jenkins Going to Extremes
Mark Jenkins Going to Extremes Podcast
The Liberty of Silence
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The Liberty of Silence

What one man taught me about patience, presence, and the power of saying nothing at all.
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Most of us are storytellers, trading tales to fill a tent on any given night. Keith Spencer was the opposite: a man who made silence his native language. In an era of oversharing and noise, Keith lived with the discipline of a monk, the grit of a soldier, and the austerity of solitude. Climbing with him was a kind of meditation, a reminder that meaning often lives between the words.

Keith Spencer on our last day together, ice climbing the Main Vein

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