Remembering the extraordinary life of free climber Michael Reardon

MARCI Reardon sits at her desk in the offices of Countrywide Financial in Oak Park, California. It’s Friday morning, Jul 13, 2007, and she’s fighting this niggling feeling something’s not right. Michael. For the longest time she’s tended to receive this odd sensation whenever Michael’s been hurt, some kind of connection.

People don’t get it at first. This one time Michael was out climbing with Con Moriarty in the Gap of Dunloe while Marci was off doing some tourist trail around Killarney. She’d joked with Con that morning that she’d know if anything happened. Not two minutes after Michael nearly brained himself off a rope, Con’s phone rang.

“Well, is he ok?”