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Beyonce’s Balcony by Luke Mehall

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Standing there, gaping at this monstrous and inhuman spectacle of rock and cloud and sky and space, I feel a ridiculous greed and possessiveness come over me. I want to know it all, possess it all, embrace the entire scene intimately, deeply, totally, as a man desires a beautiful woman. —Ed Abbey, Desert Solitaire (Note:…

Beyonce’s Balcony by Luke Mehall

Luke Mehall’s piece Beyonce’s Balcony — from The Climbing Zine Volume 16. This piece is an excerpt from The Desert, a dirtbag climbing book.

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