Skills News Gear Places People Photos Videos subscribe Join Print Newsletter Skills News Gear Places People Photos Videos subscribe Join Places Avatar: Author: Sonnie Trotter Publish date: Dec 7, 2016 Social count: 400 400 SHARES 392 0 2 tml-version="2" Alex Megos on Inshalla (VIII/5.11d), Frankenjura. Photo: Andrew Burr Twenty years ago on Christmas eve, my parents wrapped a large coffee table book and placed it under the tree while I slept. When morning came, I sat with my two sisters under the twinkling lights and peeled back the paper on what would become one of the most influential gifts of my life. At the time, I was a punk teenage kid pulling on pockets at our local grain mill in Ontario, and my newfound hobby had morphed into a full-fledged vertical addiction. What I saw on the book’s cover was a smiling mustached man in blue jeans swinging on the striking limestone of southern ...