Grants, New MexicoSaturday Evening Post Most Noble Sangha,wow.okay, it’s been 20 years since i’ve cracked the Top 20 of this Race, and let me tell you right spanking now:“There is no pain, like Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon Top 20 Pain!” my fingers can still barely function well enough to get this to you, and i […]
i can barely grok the fact that today i climb into Bala – who’ll be packed like a Grand Canyon Mule with skis, bike, snowshoes, and cold weather gear – and head east across my beloved sparse, high desert to contest the Mt. Taylor Winter Quadrathlon which has by now, become an ilg signature event. […]
The Joyful Breath
This is the First in a Series of Journals written by Andrew “Bantu” Frost, recipient of the 2008 Most Improved HP Yogi Award. Bantu is a world-class mountaineer and is on a Student-Supported WF Online Training Scholarship in preparation for the 5th ascent of an extreme ascent of Mt. McKinley this May. Coach, Well, I’ve […]
Ego is the absence of true knowledge of who we really are, together with its result: a doomed clutching on, at all costs, to a cobbled together and makeshift image of ourselves, an inevitably chameleon charlatan self that keeps changing, and has to, to keep alive the fiction of its existence. In Tibetan, ego is […]
“…while slogging through wet, avalanche proneslopes below climbs or between steps of ice, or while fighting off thepump and fighting back the fear, which rises like bile on overhanging,underprotected pitches, I found the focus I’ve cultivated through HP Prop Workout classes and under your guidance. – Andrew “Bantu” Frostworld-class mountaineerflagstaff, az THE BANTU JOURNALS,Edition Number […]
click on pic to enlarge “A true sign of progress along a genuine path of wholeness is when our conditioned, inculcated Human Interpretation is slowly being replaced more and more frequently by Divine Perspective.” – coach ilg photo: Ananda looks out over the birthplace of Wholistic Fitness, my Beloved San Juan Mountains near Telluride, Colorado. […]
Greetings Coach Ilg, well,CV count revealed 5 hours 30 minutes last week thanks to 60 minutes of good snow shoveling and a 2-hour xc ski ‘drop-everything’ adventure. This week is revealing it’s own rhythm which appears to be altogether different. early morning solo asana has been slightly off since Saturday. my best ‘insight’ with this […]