Gay Mountaineer Cason Crane Knows How to Surmount Homophobia

When Cason Crane, now 28, was about 18 years old, he was climbing Denali, the tallest mountain in North America. There, he encountered an obstacle he had never met before while ascending: homophobia. Denali is already “the most physically rigorous” of the world’s tallest mountains, attests the gay mountaineer, who…