Astra Lincoln

Dec 20, 2024 | oregonhumanities.org | Astra Lincoln

I called writer Amy Irvine in July 2024 with the intention of interviewing her about medical gaslighting. I wanted to talk about how moving through the medical system can be as erosive as any other encounter with bureaucracy. About how, somewhere along the way, many chronically ill patients lose sense of who they are, because they have spent so much time listening to different doctors tell them contradictory stories about who they could or couldn’t be.

Sep 6, 2024 | rei.com | Erin Berger |Astra Lincoln

Sarah Kendzior’s passion for climbing, along with her route to working at REI, began at a climbing gym in Wisconsin where she grew up. She took an introductory course and was quickly hooked. Kendzior started climbing outdoors and eventually progressed into alpine multi-pitch climbing and mountaineering. After graduating from college, she worked for a time in product development for a large department store and then spent a year and a half dirtbagging around the world.

Jul 23, 2024 | climbing.com | Astra Lincoln

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. This story, originally titled “Terror of Turning a Corner,” appeared in our 2024 print edition of Ascent. You can buy a copy of the magazine here. December 1, 2023. Olivia and I are at the base of a nearly two-mile-long sandstone wall in Suesca, just north of Bogotá, Colombia, when my heart rate suddenly becomes freaky high.

Apr 23, 2024 | noemamag.com | Astra Lincoln

Credits Astra Lincoln is a freelance essayist who teaches creative writing workshops with the Juneau Icefield Research Program and Write Around Portland. ATLIN, British Columbia — Catharine White was the first to see the mystery tree. It had windswept limbs, all crammed together on the leeward side of its trunk. Its needles looked soft and were spread out like a bottlebrush. It looked nothing like the subalpine fir that surrounded it. There was no way this was where it belonged. The year was 2016.

Apr 21, 2024 | oregonhumanities.org | Astra Lincoln

In the moments before her fall, Quinn Dannies felt weightless. She was finally strong enough to complete the climbing project she’d been working on for years. The afternoon was immaculate—the air cool, the light a soft amber. Pulling through the crux of the boulder problem, her heel wedged perfectly into position, Dannies reached for the hold above. But, as had happened hundreds of times before, she couldn’t stick it. She fell.