The Great Outdoors

TESSA LYONS artist and climber

ESSA LYONS seeks “total immersion in the landscape” whether she’s camping, hiking or climbing – her first love. She started climbing indoors when she was about eight years old but “can vividly remember” venturing out into the open on the Peak.

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