Childhood's End (Karakol, 2019)
Finding a second home in Kyrgyzstan, and trying to understand it.
Alpinist, artist, intellectual.
This site is a scrapbook for adventure, art, and thinking on the times we all inhabit. Sections are interlinked by design; I am making no attempt to separate or make heads or tails of these different pieces of my existence.
Alpinism
Alpine trip reports with photos, tracks, and descriptions.
Writing
Essays, notes, and other writing.
Photography
Landscape and travel photography by Callaway.
Projects
Research initiatives, writing and tooling, or code more interactive or more substantial than a single post.
Latest
Газ-Вода
A short story. A famous man slips his handlers on a space station named New World, buys a glass of carbonated water from a stand the size of a Soyuz-10 toilet, and remembers how he got there.
Little Sister and Cinderella: the mock-guide finale
Five pitches of olivine to the summit of Little Sister, a short-roped descent, and a traverse to Cinderella with an anchor worth rebuilding — the last day of AMTL 2, with the instructor as client.
Comic 2.0, Black Canyon: the first log entry
Eleven pitches of the harder Comic Relief link-up on North Chasm View Wall — a guided introduction to the Black, sent clean, and the first entry in the public log.
Reliquary Vertigo
On relics, scepticism, and what it means to stand at the tomb of the prophet Daniel in Samarqand and not know how to respond. Written from Istanbul, in collaboration.