2009 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award Winner
David Page has received awards for Best Magazine Feature, Best Freelance Journalism, Best Guidebook of 2008, and a 2009 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award from the Society of American Travel Writers. He has written for the Discovery Channel, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Men's Journal and The New York Times.
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Really Old Masters
(NY Times)
The World's Most Traveled Man?
(Men's Journal)
Skiing CA's 14ers
(Eastside Magazine)
Wild Ice
(NY Times)
Rituals: The Last Run
(NY Times)
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Mining the Fagaras Range, Transylvanian Alps, Romania. Photo by mountain guide Iulian Cozma.YOU BEAT YOUR WAY to the next great "undiscovered" village, the ultimate "secret" beach. You write about the wonder of it. Maybe you give it away. Maybe you get two bucks a word. But in your wake the wonder is gone.
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By Jack London, from The Faith of Men and Other Stories
(First published in The National Magazine, v. 17, March 1903, 703-713)
DAVID RASMUNSEN WAS A HUSTLER, and, like many a greater man, a man of the one idea. Wherefore, when the clarion call of the North rang on his ear, he conceived an adventure in eggs and bent all his energy to its achievement.
Bernie Rosow takes on the ancient Bristlecones, Death Valley's Secret Stash, Men's Journal, Feb. 2010ONCE UPON A TIME there was a certain utility to climbing mountains: to get the lay of the land, to see which way to run the wagons, to be the first to do it. That time is gone.
Death Valley, Inyo 
On Wild Horse Mesa, by Bill Becher for the New York TimesBY WAY OF A WILLOW-CHOKED WASH we left the China Lake basin and climbed up into the Cosos.
China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station, NASA
I LISTENED TO the country music station coming down the grade. It was all I could get. The weather said 150 mph gusts over the crest by midnight. My trailer was already blowing all over the road.