Pete Takeda: Journalist & Mountaineer
Journal
This section offers Pete's news, announcements, thoughts and articles on climbing, mountaineering, writing, and life. You'll find the most recent entries on the home page, while here you can browse the entry archive date or category.
Journal Categories
An Eye At The Top Of The World / Vedauwoo / Climbing / Friends and Partnerships / Fundraising / Magazine Articles / New Books / Rock Climbing Video / Television/Radio/Podcasts / Video /
Entries by Month
- June 2008
- An Eye At The Top Of The World wins 2007 Himalayan Literature Award
- Girls Education Fundraiser
- Funny Video From The Onion
- May 2008
- AN EYE Optioned by Hollywood filmmakers
- A Visit To The Set Of THE ROAD
- VERTICAL ETHIOPIA: A new book by Majka Burhardt
- AN EYE wins Best of Festival Book Award at Ogden, Utah's ClimbFest 2008
- April 2008
- Interview in April Issue of Rocky Mountain Sports.
- Dean Potter "baselining" in New York Times
- November 2007
- Back From Karakoram-Stay tuned for report
- Jonny Copp Tells AN EYE Avalanche Story in Outside Magazine
- Updated Greg Epperson Photo Site - New shots from the master...
- AN EYE is a Mountain Literature Finalist at 2007 Banff Mountain Book Festival
- September 2007
- Off to the Karakorum
- August 2007
- ESPN SportsCenter Appearance
- An Accident on the Diamond...
- July 2007
- Upcoming Expedition to Pakistan Himalayas
- June 2007
- Alpinist 20 - Profile on Bob Scarpelli
- Cool New Film - King Lines
- Grand Central Couloir on Mount Kitchener
- New Tests REFUTE PU in Ganges Silt.
- May 2007
- ESPN Interview in New York City
- First Annual ClimbFest Ogden Raises $1000's for Ogden Area Climbing Initiatives
- See you at Mountainfilm In Telluride!
- The 2007 Boulder Adventure Film Festival!
- April 2007
- A mixed climbing first ascent from 2005...
- Trailridge Outfitters and Takeda raise $1000 for environmental and outdoor non-profits
- An Eye At The Top Of The World going to paperback
- PROOF OF PLUTONIUM in Takeda's Ganges Tributary Silt Sample
- March 2007
- Charlie Fowler Feature Story in April 2007 Rock & Ice Magazine
- Cameron Kiernan of Solstice Health
- February 2007
- An Eye At The Top Of The World: A SNEWS® Live Podcast
- December 2006
- Katie Brown's Vertical World: Conversations with Today's Masters of Rock is Available!
- Nanda Devi Feature Story in Rock & Ice Magazine
- Have You Seen the New Issue of Alpinist? Here's the Video Behind the Cover Image. Sick!
- November 2006
- Interview on KGNU Radio
- Hardest Offwidth in the World?
- Vedauwoo Crack Climbing, Vol. 3
- Jeff Long Wins Grand Prize at Banff Mountain Book Festival 2006
- Upcoming Live Interview on KGNU Radio
- October 2006
- Trailer from New Film - First Ascent
- Critical Acclaim for An Eye At The Top Of The World
- Vedauwoo Crack Climbing, Vol. 2
- September 2006
- Vedauwoo Crack Climbing, Vol. 1
- Here's Another Palm Sweating Falling Sequence...
- Vedauwoo Bouldering
- More Video of Katie Brown Falling Off the Tombstone.
- An Absolute Palm Sweating Clip Of My Friend Katie Brown Taking A Monster Fall.
- Jeremy Collins
- The REEL ROCK Film Tour
- Book PR in Boulder Daily Camera
- The Snake River Alliance
- An Excerpt From An Eye At The Top Of The World
OUR FEATURED BOOKS
“Part mystery, part high-flying adventure, the book is a must-read for extreme sports aficionados and for fans of real-life spy tales.”
- David Pitt, Booklist
CLICK HERE TO READ AN EXCERPT
During the Cold War, the CIA trained some of the best climbers in the world to plant a plutonium powered surveillance device in the heart of the Himalayas. The device was lost on a legendary peak called Nanda Devi. Today, nearly four pounds of plutonium are moving ever closer to the source of the Ganges River.
BUY AN EYE AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD HERE
Having been to the set of THE ROAD, SEE HERE, I can only reaffirm my recommendation of “McCarthy’s latest novel, a frightening apocalyptic vision, narrated by a nameless man, one of the few survivors of an unspecified civilization-ending catastrophe.”
The energy on the set was appropriately true to the novel – a visit by Cormac McCarthy a day prior to my visit reportedly brought the Pulitzer Prize winning author to the brink of tears. The buzz is building and if you haven’t read the book yet, there is still time to get the jump and read it before the film release, slated for November 11, 2008.