Chris Walker
Selected Writing
from around the web and around the world
The Old and the Restless
The Atavist
In an enclave of bohemian retirees in central Mexico, one woman's name is synonymous with murder. Inside the twisted, sordid saga of Donna McCready.
Searching for Adolfo
Rock and Ice Magazine
Adolfo Benegas and Eric Bender vanished on the tallest mountain in the Western Hemisphere – Aconcagua – without a trace in 1990. After 29 years of searching, Benegas’ brother has found plane wreckage, stranded climbers, other remains and even a haunting. What he hasn’t found are answers
Acid Trip
Westword
Fifty years after the Summer of Love, it’s still a little-known fact that Denver had been home to two major LSD laboratories that fueled the psychedelic revolution.
Cambodia's Orphan-Industrial Complex
The Atlantic
71 percent of all children in Cambodia’s “orphanages” have parents, who've sacrificed the upbringing of their kids to provide education and opportunity for them in urban centers.
Street-Tough Racers Fight for Supremacy in LA's Underground Cycling World
LA Weekly
Late night explorations of LA's sprawling -- and dangerous -- underground bicycle racing scene
A Real Enigma
After police raided the home of a Colorado woman and recovered numerous artifacts belonging to Britsh codebreaker Alan Turing that had been missing from England for decades, they found out the theft and the suspect weren't nearly as straightforward as they seemed.
Ransom Road
5280 Magazine
A community of freelance truckers known as transmigrantes transport used cars and other goods from the United States to Central America. When one of them from Colorado got kidnapped, an international investigation shifted uncomfortably close to home.
Sovereign Notion
In the American West, the sovereign movement is off-grid, anti-government, and gunning for justice.
A Permaculture Legend in Peril
Jerome Osentowski is known the world over as a gardening guru who can help fight climate change. But now the permaculture legend is facing a pest he never anticipated: Eagle County's zoning code.
Greenwashed
The Lever
How do fossil fuel company executives talk about climate change amongst themselves when they think no one is listening? Grappling with disaster--or not--at one of the nation's largest oil and gas summits.
The Mysterious Mr. Clark
When Aaron Clark disappeared from Colorado, he left hundreds of thousands of dollars unaccounted for. His employees, contractors, and investors are still wondering who he really was—and where he is today.
Welcome to the Jungle
A profile of CloZee, a rising star in bass electronic music, who has decided to move from France to Denver
Mastodon is Reaffirming Metal
Playboy
A profile of the biggest act in Metal and where the band thinks the genre is heading.
As Gamblers Gather, Thailand's Child Boxers Slug it Out
NPR
If someone asked you to bet on the outcome of a nine-year old’s boxing match, would you do it? In Thailand’s rural villages, it happens all the time, where child boxing and gambling are among the oldest traditions of Muay Thai fighting.
