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Trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith has released an album around the theme of America's national parks.
Trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith has released an album around the theme of America's national parks. (Photo: Scott Groller)

The Only Things You Should Read, Watch, and Do This Week: October 24

The books, movies, music, podcasts, and other media on our radar

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Trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith has released an album around the theme of America's national parks.
(Photo: Scott Groller)

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This week in outdoor diplomacy: Canada sent America , reminding us that there's plenty that already makes us great (including our national parks).聽So聽we're giving聽Canada some love聽right back. Or at least, one Canadian.聽And we find several聽more reasons to agree with our northern neighbor聽that our parks are already great. For those who aren't into the warm,聽fuzzy feelings, continue bracing for November 8 by reviewing the Clinton and Trump environmental scorecards. (Just doing our part to pick up the slack from .)

Book

'The Escapist' by Gabriel Filippi and Brett Popplewell

(Harper Collins)

Canadian mountaineer Filippi teamed up with Canadian writer Popplewell for his memoir, which covers Filippi's 20 years of climbing on six continents, including both sides of Everest, K2, and Nanga Parbat. Filippi's reflections on survivor's guilt and post-traumatic stress disorder are well worth the read; he's witnessed a lot of tragedy, both in the mountains聽and in his personal life. He narrowly missed being in the camp聽where聽ten climbers were killed in a Taliban attack, and when the April 2015 earthquake struck. But The Escapist also has the hallmarks of any good climbing memoir: fond memories of mentorship, adventures, and many shared swigs of whiskey. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it's a satisfying read for anyone who needs their regular dose of “Why I must go to the mountains.”

Coffee Table Book

'Game Changers: The Unsung Heroines of Sports History' by Molly Shiot

(Simon & Schuster)

Shiot's Instagram, , gives a small preview of the vintage badassery to be found in this photo collection, which honors the female athletes, reporters, and influencers who blazed trails聽in the sports world.聽There are some familiar聽names, like swimmer Diana Nyad, as well as under-the-radar pioneers, like mountaineer Barbara Polk Washburn.聽Trust us鈥攖he full book deserves a place on your coffee table or聽bookshelf. Even better, give a copy to young, aspiring adventurers鈥攖hey'll find plenty of people to look up to in these pages.

Music

'America's National Parks' by Wadada Leo Smith

This might be the first jazz聽album to ever focus on聽our public landscapes. In addition to titles like “Yosemite: The Glaciers, the Falls, the Wells and the Valley of Goodwill,” Smith includes聽places聽that are important but aren't acknowledged in the parks system, like “New Orleans: The National Culture Park.” Smith, a Pulitzer-nominated trumpeter and composer, is a fascinating artist in his own right, and his album explores the beauty and politics of public lands in a singular way.

A Little Bit of Everything

'Monumental: Skiing Our National Parks' by Powder Magazine

笔辞飞诲别谤听sent skiers to Yosemite, Glacier, Grand Teton, Yellowstone, and Olympic with one goal: explore five of our most famous national parks in the winter, when they regain the wildness they lose during the crowded聽summer season.聽The experiences resulted in an聽, , and a聽, which premiered this week in Denver聽and will tour North America through December.聽More than your basic聽ski porn, it's聽homage to the parks at聽their most pristine.聽聽

Podcast

Enormocast: “Kolin Powick uses SCIENCE to keep you ALIVE!”

Product recalls are boring. (Unless it's for a piece of gear you own.) What's not boring is the team responsible for product recalls, and even more interestingly, for product quality checks. In other words: these people get to beat up new products to make sure they're safe enough to hit shelves.聽Powick knows all about this鈥攈e's Black Diamond's climbing category director and former director of quality. In this podcast, he pulls the curtain back on the process behind the聽most recent Black Diamond recall and the company's intense QC lab.

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鈥淲hat Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980?鈥

Conspiracy theories have flourished in the aftermath of the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 980. Two friends from Boston decided to figure out what really happened.
Conspiracy theories have flourished in the aftermath of the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 980. Two friends from Boston decided to figure out what really happened.

Peter Frick-Wright introduces us to “the聽single greatest aviation mystery of the 20th century.”聽A聽plane crashes into a Bolivian mountain in 1985, and, despite investigators efforts,聽the bodies and black box go unrecovered.聽

The last anyone heard from the jet was at 8:38 P.M. Eastern time. According to ground controllers, the flight was about 30 miles from the airport and cruising on track at roughly 20,000 feet. It was cleared to descend to 18,000 feet when it plowed straight into a mountain.

But when Frick-Wright joins two friends from Boston on an expedition to reach the crash site, things go in a very unexpected direction.聽

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Lead Photo: Scott Groller

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