Stephen Richert is an author, photographer and climber—and founder of LivingVertical.org, a blog and media website dedicated to adventure as medicine, drawing on his experience in steep, wild places with type 1 diabetes. He was diagnosed at 16 years old in 1999 and has still not accepted that life with a chronic illness should be anything less than spectacular. If you’d like to read his latest book about lessons from a harrowing night spent out in the open on a windswept summit in the Bugaboo Mountains titled “5 Minutes of Chaos (that changed my life)” you can get a copy at LivingVertical.org.
