The New Yorker - USA (2021-11-29)

THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 39 gherita of Savoy. The spacious house, which is believed to have belonged to a Pompeiian big ...

40 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 have gone around believing that the dolia contained only dry foodstuffs,” she told me. “Ther ...

THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 41 the years immediately before the cat- aclysm. The décor—now nearly two thousand years old—h ...

soaking them in mercury, or dunking them in boiling water—resulted in the scrolls turning to dust or mush. In a potent example o ...

THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 43 face—handsome, with deep-set eyes and a long, straight nose—looked out from a wall. Perhaps ...

44 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 which have remained vulnerable to the incursion of illegal diggers. Schol- ars have made var ...

adolescent girls want to avoid pregnancy, but don’t have access to contraception. MSI is working around the world to change this ...

46 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 the sporting scene FINDING A WAY UP After decades of dominance, Tommy Caldwell still seeks n ...

THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 47 trains during the off-season by bouldering—intense, typically low-altitude climbing with no ...

48 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 for the first time, in this year’s Olym- pics; it’s a proper sport now, replete with rules. ...

read about it in the climbing magazines that they pored over each month. It in- volved drilling bolts into routes, so that climb ...

50 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 mountains I might not come back,” he went on. “You try to control for every- thing you can. ...

THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 51 Caldwell, who in the past had found it difficult to set a mousetrap, was de- voured by guil ...

52 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 exploring new ways up, free climbing routes that even he thought looked im- possible. He sen ...

THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 53 tem in place, so he rose early and left the trailhead at first light. It’s about five thous ...

54 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 sequences. He was also inspecting the route, looking for loose rock or anything new that a c ...

any one of us,” Caldwell said. He longs to return to Patagonia—there are so many mountains calling him—but feels that he shouldn ...

56 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 climb like that, we’re like the J.V. squad. So many people are better at it than we are. We ...

THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 57 ers might endanger themselves trying to beat. Pause. “But should nobody ever do anything ex ...

58 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 annals of design THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS How the world ’s foremost maze-maker leads peop ...