Shea Freedom attempts his first solo ice climb up Hays Creek Falls near Carbondale on Jan. 9, 2023.
Photo by Boaz Cesaretti, courtesy Shea Freedom.
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‘What else is there for me but this?’
All-in Ice Fest provides place of acceptance, community, growth
Throughout Shea Freedom’s life, timing has been everything for better and for worse.
It was everything when his mother passed away right before he was emancipated from foster care and discarded to the streets of Southern California. It was everything when he should have died in a high-speed motorcycle accident yet walked away with hardly a scratch.
And it was everything when he began volunteering with the All-In Ice Fest, an annual ice climbing clinic for Black, Indigenous and people of color, L...
