Short Fiction: The Freedom of The Hills

"They say rock climbing is about facing death, but I’m not sure," read Michael Zamzow's work about the dangers of mixing love and climbing.

By Michael Zamzow

They say rock climbing is about facing death, but I’m not sure. Perhaps when I began, I would have made that claim -- because it sounds cool, because the comfortable, suicidal children of the suburbs have always believed we should be thinking more about destruction. But rock c…