Episode 27: John Svenson; A Mountaineer Artist Explains How Adventure Becomes A Life In Art
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Denali is the easy part compared to the people. That’s one of the clearest lessons we pull from our conversation with John Svenson, a Haines, Alaska mountaineer and working artist whose life somehow spans Yosemite dirtbag years, Alaska state surveying by rope, high-altitude guiding, and a studio full of watercolor, fused glass, and beadwork. We talk in John’s Extreme Dreams Gallery as spring ramps up in Haines and the season starts to feel like controlled chaos.
John walks us through the long arc: growing up in Southern California, getting pulled north through Alaska Indian…
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