All My Heroes Are Dead

Dan Kay
Core Shot
Published in
9 min readSep 3, 2019

This is a creative nonfiction piece about the calculated risks we take in life and love, told through the lenses of travel and climbing.

Long’s Peak/Meeker Cirque, Colorado. All photos mine or from friends, shared w/ permission.

‘So, I have to ask: what is this? What are we?’

‘Let’s just try and keep things light,’ she had replied, and my heart dropped out of my body.

Dan Kay
Core Shot

Always adventurous. Occasionally political. I write creative stories about life, love, climbing and travel. thisisyouth.org