L ROYAL ROBBINS "Robbins had a sense of heaviness around him," says Herrington, who shot the Yosemite big-wall pioneer at his California home in 2000. But Herrington found Robbins, who passed away in March 2017, pleasant and possessed of enough of a sense of humor to wear a Hefty garbage bag as a cape to joke about his old dark knight reputation. R GWEN MOFFAT Moffat had been driving a truck in the army in 1945 when she picked up a young hitchhiker who was going climbing. She went AWOL to learn from him and never returned to the work-a-day world. "She lived in abandoned stone huts in Wales and commited to the lifestyle," says Herrington. "She's one of the big heroes of the book." Winter 2018 / OUTDOOR RETAILER 61