You know what I found nice about both articles... on first glance the second article I thought would be a copy of the first, but low and behold they where written by two seperate people. Both turned out to be very interesting. Kudos to those two gents.
So far the R & I article is the only one I've seen, it struck me that the accompaning article on the fellow from Canada lost his life the same day as John, two totally different individuals with a unity in climbing, perhaps its peoples' unity and not uniformality that is the precious thread.