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Freddie Wilkinson\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eBachar-Yerian\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eHow do you climb a blank wall without \"murdering the impossible\"? The author adopts a style that lets him have his pristine adventure and climb it, ground up, too. The result: the Bachar-Yerian, a mental testpiece that still defines boldness and traditional climbing twenty-eight years later. John Bachar\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eA late start, a paucity of gear, and a looming storm combine to menace our heroes. Within hours on a new route up Colorado's Hallett Peak, an all-too-eager apprentice becomes a seasoned alpinist. Robert Culp\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOff Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOne man's failed internship is another's liberation. Will Pass\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWired\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eWill future high-altitude climbers count by numbers or by fair means? 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Ed Webster and Katie Ives uncover the mountain's lesser-known modern adventure-climbing history, while Doug Scott, Andrej Stremfelj, Pavel Shabalin and Dawa Steven Sherpa offer their own stories of \"creative mountaineering\" on the world's highest peak. Ed Webster and Katie Ives\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSharp End\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eBooty\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eEditor's Note\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThe editor of Alpinist sounds off. Michael Kennedy\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eNamesake\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003e\"Crumble stumps\" and Pinnacles, mountains lost and found. 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Andy Kirkpatrick\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFirst Ascent\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eNot all classic climbs have grandiose heroic tales. Peter Haan narrates the comedy of antics and errors that created Yosemite's beloved Wheat Thin. Peter Haan\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAfter growing up together, two young Pacific Northwest climbers confront the consequences of a recent Cascades winter ascent. Jens Holsten\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOff Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eHelp save the Bird. Marty Roberts\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFeatures Content\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eAll That Is Gold\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAmid the adventures of fatherhood and the terrors of \"Scottish full conditions,\" Ian Parnell discovers that even small moments and peaks can seem Himalayan at times. 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Keese Lane\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eContributors\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eContributors\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLetters\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eCerro Torre controversies, historical omissions and some literary advice.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eClimbing Life\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Climbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eKatie Lambert falls, then mends; Clint Helander quoths the raven; and Gallaudet Howard writes more fiction.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWired\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFirst Ascent\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 1994 Alex Lowe was the \"undisputed chief\" of the North American climbing community. He was also a great mentor to his friends. After an attempt on a new ice climb ended in wild flight, Lowe gave Doug Chabot the courage to finish Airborne Ranger. Doug Chabot\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 1981 Phil Broscovak plotted a first winter ascent on a terrifying Black Canyon wall—an exploit that seemed a sure way to enter the history books. The result proved to be one of his \"wildest wild hairs\" ever. Phil Broscovak\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOff Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIt was a dark and stormy ridge.... Jamie Givens\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFeatures Content\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eEarth, Stone and Sky\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eMuch of the world's great climbing literature describes grand adventures on big, snowy peaks. On a short desert crag, Peter Beal sought a different kind of transcendence. 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In a remote corner of Namibia, Majka Burhardt strove for a deeper connection between cultural understanding and vertical adventure. Majka Burhardt\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn the Trails of the Glaciers\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 1909 the Duke of the Abruzzi attempted K2. Although he didn't get the summit, his expedition photographer, Vittorio Sella, captured some of the most beautiful mountain images in history. A century afterward, Fabiano Ventura traveled to the Karakoram to re-create these and other legendary shots. Along the way, he uncovered visual proof that the world's glaciers are shrinking. 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Jeremy Kroeker and Andrew Querner commemorate a man who dedicated himself wholly to a life of simplicity, adventure and wilderness. Jeremy Kroeker\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e66 - Still Life, with Sand\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eA few stark colors define the landscape of Sedona. The essence of the place—and the fascination of its climbing—eludes understanding. Amid the sandstone spires, John Burcham and Andrew Frost pursue its fleeting compositions of space, light and human form. Andrew Frost\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e10 - Sharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAn editor pays tribute to the mountain that remains at the heart of Alpinist. 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Lionel Daudet\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e78 - Dionysian Fire\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAs a young artist, enamored with Michelangelo' s work, Shelley Zentner wanted to paint her own muscular figures with \" turbulent inner worlds and violent emotions.\" For a while, she struggled to find the right subject matter. And then she discovered climbers. Shelley Zentner\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e10 - Sharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThe worlds within our words. 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And back at Alpinist world headquarters, our associate editor dreams of pitons.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Climbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003ePointillism on Castle Mountain. Stream-of-consciousness on Denali. Enlightenment and burger grease in Montana. Several ascents of Slawston Bridge. And the story of Tami Knight's first mountain.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWired\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAgainst an ethos of summit-at-all-cost, Blake Herrington extols the oft-forgotten, valuable art of failure. Blake Herrington\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Sharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThe Silent History and the Loud. Katie Ives\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFirst Ascent\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 1971 Peter Haan led the first free ascent of The Left Side of the Hourglass. 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Yet despite the spread of com- mercialism, this Karakoram giant remains among the most hazardous of the 8000-meter peaks. During the early days of K2's climbing history, its sustained steepness, objective hazards and violent storms gave it the allure (and the menace) of an almost metaphysical challenge. Greg Child once called it \"the geologic personification of angst.\" Perhaps as a result, K2 provided the setting for so many of the classic tales that helped define the desires, ideals and fears of our community. In Part I of our two-part series, Steve Swenson returns to the lore of past centuries to rediscover the time- less human values beyond the stylistic debates. Jules Jacot-Guillarmod, Bob Craig and Luca Signorelli offer their own interpretations of what it has meant—and still means—to climb on the \"mountaineer's mountain.\"\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eMuscular Thoughts\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAfter years of living and composing \"at the edge\" of crags and high peaks, the award-winning British poet Mark Goodwin concludes that we write, read and climb for the same reason: to remain alive.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFifty-Fifty: Tales from a Climber's Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eSince the fall of the Soviet Union, Kazakh mountaineer Denis Urubko has climbed 8000-meter peaks without oxygen, in alpine style and by new routes. 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Herein, a tale from one of the East Coast's most imaginative wanderers.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTool Users\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOur associate editor narrates the History of the Rope, Part II.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Climbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eJames Lucas trails ghosts, magic and science at Index; Steven Jervis goes back to the not-so-distant future of climbing; Tad Welch mourns imper- manence in Tibet; and David Stevenson solves a riddle at Devils Tower.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eEscape Route\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eLong before flashy videos and competitions, bouldering served as train- ing for alpinism. It was also a kind of moving mediation in the natural world. 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The 1970s and 1980s on the world's second highest mountain are a time of intense contrasts and cultural diversity, of boldness and creativity, conflict and tragedy. Although, since the 1990s, a form of commercialization has spread to the mountain's normal routes, k2's adventure history may not be over: The potential for visionary new climbs and exploits remains. So, too, lingers the question of how future alpinists might rise to these challenges. As Kurt Diemberger once asked: \"how many times will we go to K2? Each time new facets of the crystal shine. Each step is a step into boundless possibility\" (The Endless Knot, 1989). From Pakistan, Japan and Poland, Nazir Sabir, Naoe Sakashita and Przemysław (\"Przemo\") Piasecki contribute their own perspectives on the eternal fascination of this one protean peak.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe City and the Blade\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eFor Hindus and Buddhists, \"Meru\" is the name of a mythic peak that rises at the center of the world, linking earth and heaven. For the international climbing community, Meru Central, in the Garhwal Himalaya of India, is the location of the Shark's Fin, one of the world's most attempted and elusive lines. In 2011 Conrad Anker, Renan Ozturk and Jimmy Chin set forth to climb a route that—for decades—existed merely in alpinists' imaginations, up a mountain whose true summit might only be attained in a purely transcendent, spiritual realm.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Sharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOur editor-in-chief, Michael Kennedy, pens a personal letter to one of the Cerro Torre bolt choppers—his son.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003ePaul Hersey pursues the fleeting icefields of New Zealand's Westland Tai Poutini National Park, exploring a landscape at the edge of loss.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Climbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eJerry Auld reflects on the long axe's fall from glory; Lauren Watson climbs to the sound of wings; and Ryan Frost takes flight from families.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eEscape Route\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eWhile recovering from a prescription drug addiction, Matt Samet enters the underbelly of Boulder's Flatirons, discovering a world in which darkness might lead slowly back to light and risking his life might save it.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eA year after falling hundreds of meters down ala Izquierda, Isabel Suppé returns to the Bolivian Andes on crutches to climb the southwest face of Serke Khollu and reflect on the accident that resulted in her partner's death.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOff Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThe irrepressible Tami Knight presents: Cerro Torre, The Musical!\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e","brand":"Alpinist","offers":[{"title":"Print Issue","offer_id":1119851640,"sku":"ALPI382012","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Digital Issue (PDF)","offer_id":29423619833944,"sku":"ALPI382013D","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/8383\/products\/alpinist-magazine-issue-38-cover.jpg?v=1562772795"},{"product_id":"alpinist-magazine-issue-39-summer-2012","title":"Alpinist Magazine Issue 39 - Summer 2012","description":"\u003ch2\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eA Season in Patagonia, Part II\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eEvery year, the golden spires of Argentina's Los Glaciares National Park lure alpinists into sagas of storm-lashed suffering and existential angst. 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David Lama overcomes his own controversies on the way to the first free ascent of the Southeast Ridge (Page 65). And in memory of Bjørn- Eivind Årtun, we present his draft of a prose poem about the first ascent of Torre Egger's Venas Azules (Page 71), written shortly before his death.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Magician's Glass\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn the 1970s and early 1980s, a small band of British Himalayan alpinists climbed harder, faster and lighter than most others of their time thought possible. By the mid-1980s, many of them had died. 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Chris Weidner gets lost in the Bugaboos and finds a new start.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Climbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003ePeter Haan looks for a door into another world. Doug Emory's characters try to reconcile themselves to this one.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWired\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eWhat happens to the solitary creativity of our pursuit as more climbers perform for a mass audience? Mountaineering historian Andy Selters investigates what may become one of the defining questions of our era.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eEscape Route\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eMore than a century before Mark Twight declared that Alpine Style was his religion, Victorian intellectuals climbed in search of a new, secular morality based on risk, commitment and immersion in the natural world. 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Brandon Pullan befriends the legendary mountaineers of the Canadian Rockies; Peter Haan, Paul Maxim and Dave Austin re-examine the career and death of one of New Zealand's strongest alpinists, Bill Denz; and Ralf Gantzhorn and Robert Jasper climb Monte Giordano in Tierra del Fuego in the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Torch and The Brotherhood\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn the 1990s and early 2000s, alpinists like Steve House, Barry Blanchard and Mark Twight created an intimidating legacy of transcendent ascents and rebellious manifestos. Twight's books, Kiss or Kill and Extreme Alpinism, remain some of the most influential works of climbing literature today. Last summer, when Kyle Dempster traveled to the Karakoram to climb K7 and the Ogre I, he contemplated what his own, younger generation might contribute.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eHomage\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eTwelve years ago, Brandon Pullan began seeking out the legendary mountaineers who'd first climbed the steep frozen waterfalls and big alpine faces of the Canadian Rockies. 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Peter Haan, Paul Maxim and Dave \"Zappa\" Austin reflect on a great (and strangely lesser-known) alpinist who remained enigmatic to everyone, perhaps even to himself.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eJust Another Bear Story\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eDoug Robinson tells a Yosemite tale of losing a pipe, encountering a Ranger, and discovering that people have more in common with bears than he thought.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Sharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003ePacking our libraries.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 2012 Ralf Gantzhorn, Jörn Heller and Robert Jasper sailed to Tierra del Fuego in Patagonia to climb a mountain with three names, no reliable maps, predictably bad weather and one big shark fin ridge.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTool Users\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOur managing editor eradicates ironmongery.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Climbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eMark C. 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Voytek Kurtyka gives a rare interview—not about the climbs that make him a legendary figure in the history of Himalayan alpine-style climbing, but about perfectionism, love, hell and freedom. After wrangling his roommates, Jérôme Sullivan attempts a massive wall on Patagonia's Continental Ice Cap. Chris Van Leuven conjures Kor and Ingalls; Dan Hilden balances on his fence; and Matt Samet reverses the irreversible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eCrag Profile: Squamish\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eMost climbing areas get only one Golden Age, when the pioneers venture forth onto the grand, natural routes for the first time, haunting future generations with a sense of some unattainable and heavily mythologized past. Squamish, British Columbia, is now on its third or fourth or fifth Golden Age. The irrepressible (or as the artist Jeremy Collins would say \"the uncontrollable, indescribable, gratuitously indefatigable\") Tami Knight highlights the climbs, characters and (occasionally substancefueled) mayhem that have gilded each decade. Hamish Mutch, Peter Croft, Hamish Fraser, Anders Ourom and Sonnie Trotter contribute their own memories of what makes the Stawamus Chief and its outlying crags seem forever young.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe View from the Wall\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThe Polish alpinist Voytek Kurtyka remains one of the most legendary figures in the history of Himalayan alpine-style climbing. In an interview with Zbyszek Skierski, he shares his thoughts on perfectionism, love, hell and freedom. 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After years of mapping the region, Damien Gildea pieces together a history of this \"citadel of seekers.\" John Evans, Patrick Degerman and Conrad Anker narrate their own journeys into mountains of madness under the midnight sun.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFootfalls\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eEighteen years after her death on K2, the memory of the great Alison Hargreaves still haunts the climbing community. An English poet, Helen Mort, looks between the lines of books and articles, and amid the gaps and silences of history, in search of connection and understanding.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Troll's Gift\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eBack in the 1990s, a dirty, great and groaning wall cast its spell on British alpinist Andy Kirkpatrick. But after four sketchy attempts, he began to run out of willing partners for a winter ascent on Norway's Trollveggen. The solution? 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Ed Hartouni argues the need to cultivate our vertical gardens.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003e\"Big Mike\" Cowper's best friend takes a break from changing diapers to check out a particularly harrowing trip report on SuperTopo. Although the tale of monsoonlike rain on a long Squamish route sounds pretty grim, he decides the two of them can one-up the epic.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eEscape Route\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003ePeter Croft recalls a new route in California's Sequoia National Park that started with dreams of 2,000 feet of granite and beer-wielding Valkyries. 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As Ian Parnell explains, Griffith's photos represent a quest for something even more challenging, located at the limits of vision itself.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eJourney into Night\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn October 2013, Ueli Steck astounded the international climbing community with a rapid solo on Annapurna's South Face. But for him, the ascent was a kind of private, nocturnal pilgrimage, influenced by the recollection and example of departed heroes.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eAfloat\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eMore than two decades ago, the climbing artist Jeremy Collins met his future wife. 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And yet, even today, many of the vast walls remain largely unknown. Paul Hersey sifts through the rich stories of this oft-forgotten range, from the early days of Maori exploration to New Zealand alpinist Guy McKinnon's 2013 first ascent of the 1900-meter West Face of Mt. Tutoko. Allan Uren, Mayan Smith-Gobat, Richard Thomson, Alastair Walker and Pat Deavoll offer perspectives on the modern renaissance of a place that's increasingly become the center of New Zealand's technical alpinism.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Illusion of Control\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn March 2012, thirty-four-year-old Chris Van Leuven visited the great American climber Harvey T. Carter during his final days in a Colorado Springs hospital. The eighty-one-year-old man's words became the catalyst for a quest to understand how climbing prepares us for the challenges of ordinary existence, the approach of old age and the unavoidability of loss. Over the next two years, Van Leuven embarked on a series of conversations with three climbers, now in their fifties and sixties, whose youthful exploits resembled aspects of Carter's career. And with Stewart Green, Ed Webster and Jimmie Dunn, he now explores the consequences and rewards of choosing a focused life.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Sharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThe fragility of fierce places.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOne reader shares what it's like to night climb without hearing. Another explains the true history of the Ice Hammock.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn recent years, a small group of Korean alpinists have been carrying out bold and often underreported minimialist ascents in the Himalaya. 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Fifty years after the passage of the Wilderness Act, designed to protect such places, Forest McBrian explores the evolving ways that climbers here have imagined and approached the \"wild.\" Ed Cooper, Carla Firey, Wayne Wallace and Jens Holsten recount their own alpine quests in one of the most isolated regions of the Lower 48.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eSendero Luminoso\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn January 2014, Alex Honnold free soloed El Sendero Luminoso, a big wall in Mexico's El Potrero Chico. Today, he looks beyond the momentary purity of ascent at the complex impacts of professional climbing.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eVisions of Charlie Porter\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eWhen Charlie Porter died on February 23, 2014, he left behind a legacy of underreported adventures. Yet his friends never forgot their experiences with him. 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And Brendan Leonard meditates on life and death in the fatlands and the hills.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWired\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eFor decades, Craig Fry, David Evans, Randy Vogel and Spencer Lennard have debated what really took place during the frst ascent of one of the most classic routes in Joshua Tree, California. Herein, Brad Rassler examines the shadowy dance between landscape, imagination, history and memory.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLocal Hero\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIf you've spent time at Joshua Tree, you likely met (or stayed with) the \"Mayor of Joshua Tree,\" Todd Gordon. Cameron Burns profles this generous teacher, family man and avid frst ascensionist.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOff Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eMatt Samet ofers six \"helpful\" tips for training your infant to be the next superclimber of the future. With cartoons by Tami Knight.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e","brand":"Alpinist","offers":[{"title":"Print Issue","offer_id":10657233796,"sku":"ALPI522015","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Issue (PDF)","offer_id":29424968466520,"sku":"ALPI522016D","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/8383\/products\/alpinist-magazine-issue-52-cover.jpg?v=1447343840"},{"product_id":"alpinist-magazine-issue-53","title":"Alpinist Magazine Issue 53 - Spring 2016","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the 100th anniversary of America’s National Park Service, \u003cem\u003eAlpinist\u003c\/em\u003e 53 features a Mountain Profile on Zion National Park, tracing the human history of its great sandstone walls, from tales of indigenous cliff dwellers to modern climbers—including essays and photos that span decades of exploration. Author Ethan Newman speaks with many of the local protagonists and asks: How will the forces of erosion, human impact and climate change shape the landscape a hundred more years in the future?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOther writers venture deep into wild ranges around the globe and within the mind. Born in Taiwan, Szu-ting Yi learned to climb in the US. As she makes a first ascent in the Qionglai Mountains of China, she examines the intersection of cultures that formed her vision of climbing. Award-winning author Mark Jenkins joins a party of mountain writers to climb in Wyoming’s Cloud Peak Wilderness—and to discuss their literary craft. Graham Zimmerman goes on a pilgrimage to Pakistan's Changi Tower and the Southwest Ridge of K6. Lise Billon, Jérôme Sullivan, Diego Simari and Antoine Moineville set sail for the remote Southern Patagonian Icefield, encountering mountains so surreal they seem almost imaginary. Mingma Gyalje Sherpa solos a new route on the peak that glimmers through the window of his childhood home—the fluted west face of Nepal’s Khang Tagri.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith more than 100 pages of climbing imagery and lore, \u003cem\u003eAlpinist\u003c\/em\u003e 53 explores some of the most exciting adventures, stories and ideas of our mountain world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eMountain Profile: Zion National Park\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 1904 the artist Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh wrote of the landscape that became Zion National Park: \"Never before has such a naked mountain of rock entered into our minds!... There is almost nothing to compare to it. Niagara has the beauty of energy; the Grand Canyon, of immensity; the Yellowstone, of singularity; the Yosemite, of altitude; the ocean, of power; this great temple, of eternity.\" Recalling prehistoric dunes and vanished seas, Zion appears at once infinite and ever-eroding. Ethan Newman recounts scenes from the human history, from tales of indigenous cliff dwellers to modern climbers. Jeff Mayhew, Amanda Tarr Forrest, Bryan Bird and Cameron M. Burns share some of their explorations of the vast sandstone walls.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThrough the Field\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eEver since he started climbing, Graham Zimmerman imagined alpinism as a form of pilgrimage. When he gets a chance to visit the Karakoram Range with Steve Swenson, Scott Bennett and Hajji Ghulam Rasool, he realizes the goal might be different than he'd thought.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eA Quartet for Silent Lands\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eA team of French and Argentinean alpinists—Lise Billon, Antoine Moineville, Diego Simari and Jérôme Sullivan—journey to the western edge of the Southern Patagonian Icefield. Climbing a new route on Cerro Riso Patrón, they encounter a realm so vast and unfamiliar they need all four of their imaginations to tell even part of the tale.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003ca title=\"Read The Sharp End from Issue 53\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/alpinist.com\/doc\/ALP53\/sharp-end-the-ice-world-beyond\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eThe Sharp End\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eDuring the Victorian Age, an intrepid group of women helped pioneer winter mountaineering—only to have their contributions largely vanish from mainstream history.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn which a reader, asking for replacement copy of Alpinist 43, shares a grim tale of how the original was lost.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eBorn in Taiwan, Szu-ting Yi first learned to climb in the States. Years later, establishing routes in the Qionglai Mountains, she explores the intersections of cultures that formed her vision of alpinism. Meanwhile, Derek Franz recounts the tricks behind an Indian Creek classic, and Andy Kirkpatrick finds a novel use for a hefty book.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTool User\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eRoss Taylor, studying the evolution of footwear, present a sticky topic.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Climbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eDouglas Pope tries to make it work. Claire J. Carter finds solid ground. Bree Loewen goes on a rescue. Rachel Fixsen hears snakes in the wall.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eHoping to make Nepali alpinists more visible— and to boost a struggling local economy— Mingma Gyalje Sherpa decides to solo a peak above his village in the Rolwaling Himal.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWired\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eMark Jenkins recounts a tale of three climbing writers discussing their craft while making probable first ascents in Wyoming's Cloud Peak Wilderness.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOff Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003ePat Ament pays tribute to Mort Hempel (1943–2015), bard of the Golden Age.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e","brand":"Alpinist","offers":[{"title":"Print Issue","offer_id":14620310340,"sku":"ALPI532016","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Issue (PDF)","offer_id":29424966074456,"sku":"ALPI532017D","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/8383\/products\/alpinist-magazine-issue-53-cover.jpg?v=1455128737"},{"product_id":"alpinist-magazine-issue-54","title":"Alpinist Magazine Issue 54 - Summer 2016","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the deadline approached for this issue’s cover, we reached out to Jeremy Collins to see if he might have an idea. He recounts: “I quickly doodled something imagined: Trango Towers meets Baffin Island meets Cirque of the Unclimbables. A dream valley. Then I set my tool against the art to show scale and its simple handcrafted approach. And thus the cover was born—fast and light, alpine style.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJeremy’s illustrations grace both the cover and this issue’s profile of mythic, sacred and imaginary peaks. Hayden Kennedy writes of an expedition to the Kishtwar Himalaya in India, during which he learns to reassess his priorities as an alpinist. Maya Prabhu presents stories of Indian climbers making fast and light ascents in their own country. Lisa Roderick describes her first season as the manager of Kahiltna Basecamp, with a close-up view of the joy, suffering and risks of climbing in the Alaska Range. The cutting-edge Slovenian alpinist—and ever-provocative thinker—Marko Prezelj asks himself the hard questions about what it means to share photos and stories from private experiences in the hills. In addition, you’ll find a tribute to Cascades soloist Fay Pullen, a new fiction story by the great Jeff Long…and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eA History of Imaginary Mountains\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eBehind the histories of exploration lie less-visible tales of rumored summits that prove to be nonexistent, and of physical mountains whose shapes and heights transform according to different legends. John Hessler, Frances Garrett, Meera Baindur, Jerry Auld, Anders Ax, Harish Kapadia, Sylvain Jouty and Hubert Odier share stories of mythic peaks, both real and imagined, charted and uncharted, from around the world. With illustrations by Jeremy Collins and an introduction by Katie Ives.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLight Before Wisdom\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAfter a knee injury in 2012, Hayden Kennedy was forced, temporarily, to contemplate his identity with and without climbing. Then a friend's invitation to the east face of Cerro Kishtwar reawakens him to what he truly loves about the mountains.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eNotes from the Frontier\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThe word Alpine evokes images of European summits. Maya Prabhu reports on the \"HimAlpinists,\" Indian climbers seeking to balance fast and light styles with the histories of their country's Himalayan peaks.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eEvent Horizon\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn a photo essay, the great Slovenian climber Marko Prezelj, known for his distrust of \"tasty talking,\" now asks himself the hard questions about sharing tales and images from private experiences in the hills.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eAll In\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eBase-camp staff, pilots and rescuers often appear in the margins of stories. Yet in crises, their efforts can make the difference between life and death. Lisa Roderick recalls her first season as manager of Kahiltna Basecamp.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Sharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eClimbing fast and slow.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eReaders set the record straight and tell us not to fret.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eMost climbers associate Reinhold Messner with the rise of alpine-style ascents in the Himalaya. But he also helped bring hard free climbing to Europe. Christoph Willumeit and Ralf Gantzhorn make a pilgrimage to the Dolomites, searching for memories of the great man's youth. Meanwhile, Chris Van Leuven puts his faith in a finicky copperhead.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTool User\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOur digital editor writes of falls and fifi hooks.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Climbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eRick Accomazzo learns to ice climb in 1970s Yosemite with the irrepressible Tobin Sorenson. Ramsey Mathews runs out of water in Red Rock. Michelle Marie Robles Wallace finds a rock with a view. Claire Cameron pieces together lines from Accidents in \u003cem\u003eNorth American Mountaineering\u003c\/em\u003e to create a story of her own.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eDuring the nineteenth century, Jim Bridger was well known for tall tales about the ranges of the American West. Herein, the modern climbing writer Jeff Long retells Bridger's attempt on \"Glass Mountain,\" examining the aspirations and consequences of frontier mythology.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLocal Hero\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAt seventy-three, Cascades climber Fay Pullen bushwhacks through dense thickets and climbs isolated peaks—generally alone. Cindy Beavon pays a visit to one of Washington's most prolific soloists.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOff Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eBefore his theory of evolution made him famous, Charles Darwin was an enthusiastic, if somewhat picky, mountaineer. 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Joe Kelsey, great chronicler of these mountains, once wrote: \"There isn't much reason to make the effort to visit the Wind Rivers unless you believe in something—something encompassed, however imprecisely, by the term wilderness.\" Paula Wright recounts moments from its written and unwritten histories, from Native American inhabitants and European explorers to environmental activists and big-wall free climbers. Royal Robbins, Doug Robinson, Jeff Lowe, Raymond G. Jacquot, Sibylle Hechtel, Joe Kelsey and Dick Dorworth offer glimpses of their own adventures in this mysterious, but fragile range.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eStillness and Storms\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eA little more than a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a German expedition traveled to Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia to establish a new climb on the Torre Central. For East German team member Bernd Arnold, the trip also symbolized the regaining of his own freedom with the end of his region's former communist regime. The resulting route, Riders on the Storm, included some of the hardest free pitches in the region—luring others to try to eliminate the rest of the aid. Twenty-five years later, New Zealand big-wall climber Mayan Smith-Gobat joins German alpinist Ines Papert to attempt to finish their dream. Amid the rockfall, the ice and the heavy storms, Smith- Gobat strives to find her own way in the wild.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Sharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOf visible and invisible maps.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eA reader shares the climbing journals of her late son.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eClimbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eHelen Mort extols a woman climber's best (imaginary) friend. Devi Lockwood follows her mother's paths. Kai Lightner explores the old and the new. Jamie McNally dreams of vanishing landscapes. Mark Jenkins contemplates quitting, and Henry Tyce decides he won't.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWired\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAward-winning poet Helen Mort searches for the reasons why writing poetry about climbing experiences can be so challenging—and she presents some of her favorite authors' solutions.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eDerek Franz peers into the dark side of the dirtbag dream.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLocal Hero\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eJames Edward Mills honors Steven Shobe, role model and pioneer.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOff Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eKristen Rowe and Mike McMahon recount their quest to capture an image of a climber atop Ancient Art in the Fisher Towers, silhouetted against the full moon—the story behind the cover of this issue.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e","brand":"Alpinist","offers":[{"title":"Print Issue","offer_id":21641368004,"sku":"ALPI552016","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Issue (PDF)","offer_id":29425191845976,"sku":"ALPI552017D","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/8383\/products\/alpinist-magazine-issue-55-cover.jpg?v=1469120025"},{"product_id":"alpinist-magazine-issue-56","title":"Alpinist Magazine Issue 56 - Winter 2016","description":"\u003ch2\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eYosemite: A Layered Terrain\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn mountaineering literature that focuses on the individual, it can be hard to remember that landscape is not just a backdrop; stories occur where topography and history meet. From famed ascents to razed forests and rockfall, we present one valley ve ways. With texts from Peter Haan, Paula Wright, Peter Croft, Libby Sauter and Chris Kalman, and images by Craig Muderlak, Alex Nabaum, Jamie Givens and Jeremy Collins.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eUntracked\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn a debate with a fellow guide about the current state of mountaineering, Cosmin Andron struggles to answer the question, \u003cem\u003eWhat is climbing for? \u003c\/em\u003eFrom the Carpathian Mountains of Romania to the Western Garhwal of India, the Romanian alpinist recalls false starts, unplanned walls—and the intense, indescribable feeling that lures him on.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Many Faces of One Face\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOn March 25, 1966, Dougal Haston, Sigi Hupfauer, Jörg Lehne, Günther Strobel and Roland Votteler completed the rst ascent of the Eiger Direct on the Eiger North Face. ough the British-American team's trials were well documented, the stories of the German climbers largely faded from the record. On the ftieth anniversary of this controversial climb, German historian Jochen Hemmleb joins British journalist Peter Gillman on a quest for a more \"multifaceted,\" complex history.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eBeginnings of Histories\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOn September 3, 2016, the search for missing climbers Kyle Dempster and Scott Adamson on the Ogre II in Pakistan ended. In these pages, friends and climbing partners alike share memories of two great alpinists and beloved men.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Sharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOff route and out of time.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOne reader reports on Henry David oreau's reconstruction of early New England maps; another requests that we revisit Pinedale, Wyoming; and the indefatigable Bosley Sidwell calls for applicants to join an imaginary mountain expedition.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAfter ten years as a boulderer, Keita Kurakami attempts what some other local climbers called impossible: a new free route on the daunting 110-meter Moai Face of Mt. Mizugaki—that turned out to be the hardest multipitch trad climb in Japan.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTool User\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThe search for the origins of the Jumar takes Anders Ax on a journey to caves, monkeys and marmosets.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eClimbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eTami Knight nds the way out. Jenny Abegg confronts anxiety at Indian Creek. Shelton Johnson locates the Cavalryman's Paradise in Yosemite. Jane Jackson seeks space in New Mexico. David Stevenson heads into the blue. And David Roberts revisits moments of doubt.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn July 1973 in the Bugaboos, Sibylle Hechtel ropes up with a stranger for the rst ascent of \u003cem\u003eDégringolade\u003c\/em\u003e, \"a tumbling fall, or plunge.\"\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWired\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eFounder of \u003cem\u003eMountain\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, the late Ken Wilson was known (in Doug Scott's words) as \"a relentless guardian of the soul of mountaineering—as he saw it.\" John Porter looks back on his nine-month stint in Wilson's mountain world.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLocal Hero\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAfter growing up trekking in the mountains of Pakistan, Hanniah Tariq returned in 2012 to the Baltoro Glacier, where decades of waste from mountain tourism littered the area. In response, she founded High Altitude Sustainability Pakistan. Vanessa Beucher reports.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOff Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eTami Knight creates a eld guide to modern climbers.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e","brand":"Alpinist","offers":[{"title":"Print Issue","offer_id":32089170564,"sku":"ALPI562016","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Digital Issue (PDF)","offer_id":29425193222232,"sku":"ALPI562017D","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/8383\/products\/alpinist-magazine-issue-56-cover.jpg?v=1478114189"},{"product_id":"alpinist-magazine-issue-57","title":"Alpinist Magazine Issue 57 - Spring 2017","description":"\u003ch2\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eMountain Profile: Jannu, the Sleeping Warrior\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAlpinist\u003c\/em\u003e 24, the great Russian alpinist Valery Babanov declared, \"Any ascent of Jannu is a leap into the unknown, and the unpredictability of the result grows geometrically with the increasing difficulty of the line.... Any path to Jannu would require the surpassing of ourselves.\" On the Nepali side of the Kangchenjunga Himal, near the border with India, this 7710-meter summit remains one of the most challenging peaks in the world. Paul Hersey and Andrew Lindblade chronicle stories of decades of climbers who have confronted its unique dangers and otherworldly allure. Graeme Dingle, Naoe Sakashita and Sergey Kofanov provide their own perspectives on its steep, icy walls—while local guide Dawa Sherpa describes what it's like to live and work near the base of a mountain sacred to his culture.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTo Abandon\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eGwen Moffat, Britain's first female mountain guide, became legendary for her dirtbag life in the mid-twentieth century. Decades later, a young poet, Claire Carter, turns to Moffat for inspiration as she sets out on a journey through the American West to understand what it really means to abandon everything for the mountains.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThreshold Shift\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 2003, when Nick Bullock quits his steady job to climb and write full-time, his parents sell their house and move into a boat to wander the British canals. Thirteen years later, faced with the deaths of climbing friends, the loss of his mother, and the uncertainties of Brexit, he returns from Tibet to help his aging father and to weigh the cost of dreams.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Sharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eLearning to Climb in the Anthropocene.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAs an \u003cem\u003eAlpinist\u003c\/em\u003e reader confronts the current crises of America, he turns to a parable of the Eiger.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eFrom Nepal to India and Bolivia, alpinist Anna Pfaff wanders off the maps and into unexpected adventures.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTool User\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003ePaula Wright shines a light on the dark side.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eClimbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eNick Mott considers the ethics of climbing on Bear Lodge (Devils Tower). Mark Rodell contemplates the difference that fifty feet make. Manasseh Franklin envisions the fates of glaciers and humanity in landscapes of change. Joanna Croston ascends the Finger. Everest guide Phurba Namgyal Sherpa recalls the 2015 earthquake.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eDuring a 2000 attempt on Nameless Tower in Pakistan, Mexican climber Luis Carlos García Ayala became friends with a local cook, Ali Muhammad Saltoro. Seven years later, Ayala returned to the region to establish a new big-wall route and to teach Saltoro how to lead.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWired\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eFor a long time, mountaineering scholars had insisted that before Romantic poets and Alpine climbers, most Europeans considered mountains to be both gloomy and unappealing. Then a PhD student, Dawn L. Hollis, set out to prove them wrong.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLocal Hero\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eDuring the 1930s, one woman joined the race to climb the feared north faces of the Alps, venturing into terrain then believed to be reserved for only the boldest (and some claimed the most reckless) men. Sallie Greenwood looks back on the extraordinary, often-forgotten life of Swiss alpinist Louise \"Loulou\" Boulaz.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOff Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eWhen climbers reject imperial notions of conquering nature, what do they find in their place? Mailee Hung examines Richard T. Walker's alpine art, and its promises of \"mystery, self-discovery and resistance.\"\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e","brand":"Alpinist","offers":[{"title":"Print Issue","offer_id":34478771087,"sku":"ALPI572017","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Issue (PDF)","offer_id":29425193844824,"sku":"ALPI572018D","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/8383\/products\/alpinist-magazine-issue-57-cover.jpg?v=1484854679"},{"product_id":"alpinist-magazine-issue-58","title":"Alpinist Magazine Issue 58 - Summer 2017","description":"\u003ch2\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eRoyal Robbins: In the World of Granite and Light\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eFew other names conjure more images of the Golden Age of Yosemite than that of Royal Robbins, who passed away in March. Known in climbing history for so often being first, Robbins gave Tom Patey the last word in \u003cem\u003eAdvanced Rockcraft\u003c\/em\u003e: \"Good climbing and good company often go together: each is essential to the enjoyment of the other.\" Herein, friends of Robbins share memories of the father, climber and visionary.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eParadigm Shift\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 1993 Lynn Hill's first free ascent of the Nose on El Capitan became a powerful symbol of women's ability to rock climb at the same level as men. Decades later, Caroline Treadway interviews Hill, Steph Davis, Beth Rodden, Pamela Shanti Pack and others on closing the gender gap in the upper limits of hard trad climbing.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eUnder the Influence\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOn her eleventh birthday, Claudia Camila López received a camera as a present. Since then, the Colombian-born climber has been documenting the faces of people, crags and mountains, looking to capture the elusive, invisible essence of the world.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eBreathe Deep\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn September 2016, a week after learning that Kyle Dempster and Scott Adamson were overdue from a climb in Pakistan, Jeff Shapiro and Chris Gibisch leave for the Kishtwar Himalaya in India. With the fate of their friends on their mind, Shapiro and Gibisch vow to \"pay attention to every moment for its full value\" and to be ready to turn back if the risks seem too great as they seek their way through dense forests and a chaotic icefall to the unclimbed south side of 6486-meter Brammah II.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Sharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThe hero(ine)'s journey.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAn \u003cem\u003eAlpinist\u003c\/em\u003e reader sounds a call to action.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAfter weeks of climbing in the Neacola Mountains, Drew Thayer and his partners eschew the convenience of a plane ride to complete an irresistible line on the map: a complete journey from summit to sea.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eClimbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eWhitney Clark contemplates what a few seconds are worth. Christopher Elliott climbs a rock spire on the island of Soqotra to learn more about its mysterious summit cairn (three years after Mike Libecki described it in \u003cem\u003eAlpinist\u003c\/em\u003e 34). Poet Ed Roberson goes to Peru. Spencer Gray catalogues the items that make a day in the \"freedom of the hills\" possible. Leslie Hsu Oh finds family, strength and love on a wintry climb. Shirin Shabestari carries on in her father's tradition up Damavand, the tallest volcano in Iran.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn October 1976, little more than a year after climbing the south face of Mt. Watkins, with Tobin Sorenson and Gib Lewis, Rick Accomazzo returns to the 2,800- foot wall to take part in a major rescue attempt.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWired\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eEarly expeditions often combined the exploration of new heights with a search for rare botanical specimens. More than a century after both natural history and mountaineering fractured into subdisciplines, Associate Editor Paula Wright explores climbing's science gap.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOff Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eJeremy Collins imagines the young Royal Robbins.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e","brand":"Alpinist","offers":[{"title":"Print Issue","offer_id":44160853391,"sku":"ALPI582017","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Issue (PDF)","offer_id":29425321934936,"sku":"ALPI582018D","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/8383\/products\/alpinist-magazine-issue-58-cover.jpg?v=1510759474"},{"product_id":"alpinist-magazine-issue-59","title":"Alpinist Magazine Issue 59  - Autumn 2017","description":"\u003ch2\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eMountain Profile: La Meije, Part I\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003e\"La Meije...exerts over all who see it from a distance or who approach it a veritable 'magnetism,'\" Roger Canac wrote in 2007. Considered the \"Matterhorn\" of the Massif des Écrins, la Meije was the last of the great Alps to be summited—by an all-French team in 1877. Erin Smart explores the early history of this long \"impossible mountain\" in southeast France, while Claude Gardien and Paula Wright profile a few of the many who dreamed of making its first ascent.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eUeli Steck (1976–2017)\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThe great alpinist Ueli Steck left behind a legacy of talent and mystery. With photos from his friend Jonathan Griffith, editor-in-chief Katie Ives recalls moments from the life of a man who was much warmer and more human than his oft-repeated nickname, the \"Swiss Machine.\"\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eA Mountain of Shadows\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThis spring, Clint Helander and Jess Roskelley made the first ascent of one of Alaska's most daunting routes: the complete south ridge of Mt. Huntington. As he recounts what proved to be an epic experience, Helander examines some of the brooding history and gothic tales that have gathered around this great peak, the subject of David Roberts' famous book, \u003cem\u003eThe Mountain of My Fear\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eContraindications\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAnna Smith was a bold climber who sought a life of spontaneity and freedom in wild places. After Smith's death in the Miyar Valley of India, her expedition partner Alison Criscitiello recalls the story of their friendship and contemplates the tensions between our impulse to desire both love and risk, community and solitary adventure.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Sharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eDuring the mid-twentieth century, an ardent conservationist planted a series of hoaxes in a climbing magazine to send a message about the value of wild lands. Herein, we reveal one of the great imaginary mountains of Harvey Manning.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAlex Honnold's free solo of El Capitan occasions a letter, and a Tami Knight response. Dora Keen's grandniece recalls the fallout of Keen's nights in the snow cave on Mt. Blackburn. And Brad Johnson remembers Ueli Steck.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eEager to explore new routes in his own country, Karn Kowshik searches for unclimbed ice in the remote Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh, India. Meanwhile, Gaby Pilson recalls Pete's Farewell.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTool Users\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eCharlie Lieu recounts the origin of the Sticht Plate, the first modern belay device.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eClimbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eMarc-André Leclerc considers the death of a moth in the snow. Ana Beatriz Cholo becomes an accidental mountaineer. Paul Hersey passes a hammer, and the narrative, to his partner. Chip Brown unboxes his shadow. Chris Kalman is first on the scene. And Jon Popowich muses on the meaning of the Ruth.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 1969 a young David Roberts buzzes the doorbell at the apartment of W. H. Auden, his literary hero, in hopes of inspiring the aging poet to journey with him to Alaska's Brooks Range.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLocal Hero\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAs a collector and digital chronicler of mountain history, Bob A. Schelfhout Aubertijn generally prefers to remain between the lines or behind the shelves. The intrepid Andrew Szalay seeks out the man behind the mysterious online avatar.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOff Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eDerek Franz interrupts his silent partner.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e","brand":"Alpinist","offers":[{"title":"Print Issue","offer_id":47997252559,"sku":"ALPI592017","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Digital Issue (PDF)","offer_id":29425322426456,"sku":"ALPI592018D","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/8383\/products\/alpinist-magazine-issue-59-cover.jpg?v=1501527454"},{"product_id":"alpinist-magazine-issue-60","title":"Alpinist Magazine Issue 60  - Winter 2017","description":"\u003ch2\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eMountain Profile: La Meije Part II (1877–2017)\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOnce French climbers reached the summit of the previously unclimbed Grand Pic de la Meije in 1877, the mountain emerged as a national emblem. Yet la Meije also retained an elusive and wild identity of its own, an aura of mystery that contrasted with more developed regions of the Alps. Erin Smart chronicles the history of the mountain that managed—as the novelist Édouard Estaunié once wrote—to \"live a life apart,\" while Paula Wright, Claude Gardien, Bruno Gardent and Pascal Tournaire share stories from its quiet slopes.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTaking Flight\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eWhen Denali guide and artist Leighan Falley gets her commercial pilot's license, her drawings from expedition notebooks expand into paintings of vast mountain landscapes as seen from high above.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Force of the Soul: Hugues Beauzile\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn the winter of 1993, media helicopters flew over the iconic Walker Spur of the Grandes Jorasses in anticipation of Catherine Destivelle's winter ascent, when another solitary figure emerged from the wall: Hugues Beauzile, a Haitian-French climber who had only recently put on crampons for the first time. Herein, James Edward Mills recalls the remarkable life and untimely death of an alpine prodigy.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eInto the Blue\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eA grainy photograph of a half-hidden big wall leads Jérôme Sullivan on a remote journey into Greenland. Sullivan and his partners eschew a helicopter flight to Apostelens Tommelfinger in favor of a \"fair-means\" approach: a 170-kilometer paddle through the icy waters of the North Atlantic and Ikerasassuaq (Prince Christian Sound).\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eSharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAn atlas of vanishing landscapes.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eA reader cherishes two minutes of eternity.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 2015 Jeff Snyder journeys into the Grand Canyon with local climber Zach Harrison and photographer Blake McCord to pursue the elusive first free ascent of Zoroaster Temple's Southeast Face. As they descend through layers of geology and history, they realize that the greatest adventure might not be the climb, but the approach. Meanwhile, in Yosemite, Shawnté Salabert recalls an unusual heroine.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTool Users\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eNick Aiello-Popeo uncovers decades of climbing lore—and surprising debates—circling a little loop of nylon.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eClimbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAlexa Flower discovers her yield point. Tami Knight introduces the #nextgen#GMO-oh climbers. Annie Osburn scrapes the abyss. Alex McKiernan finds his way back to the sharp end. And after years of climbing at Indian Creek, McKenzie Long returns to listen to some of the many voices of the Bears Ears National Monument debate.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWired\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eSince the founding of the Club Alpin Français in 1874, alpinists scampered about the sandstone boulders in the forest of Fontainebleau as practice for routes in the high mountains. Nearly a century and half later, David Roberts traverses the forest to discover some of the deeper curiosities that poets and climbers, artists and wanderers alike sought in its depths.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAs unexpected snow piled deep drifts around a mountain hut, David Stevenson encounters a startling omen: a raven at the door.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOff Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn memory of Hayden Kennedy and Inge Perkins.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e","brand":"Alpinist","offers":[{"title":"Print Issue","offer_id":5406383177756,"sku":"ALPI602017","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Digital Issue (PDF)","offer_id":29425322917976,"sku":"ALPI602018D","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/8383\/products\/alpinist-magazine-issue-60-cover.jpg?v=1510755708"},{"product_id":"alpinist-magazine-issue-61","title":"Alpinist Magazine Issue 61 - Spring 2018","description":"\u003ch2\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Beckey Effect\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eWhen he died last October, Fred Beckey, often referred to as the \"indomitable,\" left behind an unprecedented legacy of first ascents across North America, as well as a legend shaped by decades of lore from all who encountered him in the mountains. In this article, Brad Rassler unravels the myth of the \"original dirtbag,\" while Megan E. Bond, Alex Bertulis, Cameron M. Burns and Douglas McCarty share encounters with one of the most prolific and complicated alpinists of our time.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003ePressure Lift\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eForty years after Bob Plumb and Dave Stutzman's first ascent of the North Pillar on Devils Thumb (Taalkhunaxhk'u Shaa), Cole Taylor sails to the Stikine Icecap of Alaska, alone, to complete an unsupported solo second ascent of the route.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eDreaming of Afghan Mountains\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn the 1960s and 70s, Afghanistan hosted some of the world's most accomplished alpinists. Then, with the Soviet invasion and the Afghan Civil War, mountaineering disappeared from the country for more than two decades. Now, amid the ongoing fighting between the US, the Taliban and other forces, Eileen Guo recounts efforts of local and international alpinists to restore a mountain tourism economy.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eGlimmers in the Dark\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn early October 2017, Inge Perkins and her boyfriend Hayden Kennedy were caught in an avalanche that she did not survive. Kennedy later died by suicide. In the aftermath, Derek Franz remembers his friendship with Kennedy, a two-time Piolet d'Or winner who shunned publicity and who had long seemed to be seeking a deeper connection with the world.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eSharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 1872 American climber Clarence King revealed a strange and audacious hoax; more than 145 years later, the myth of the mountain of diamonds still haunts the Western landscape.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOne reader considers the age-old question: if an alpinist solos in the Cascades and there is no one to Instagram it, does it matter? Another shares the stoke with an \u003cem\u003eAlpinist\u003c\/em\u003e Cover Guy.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOn a trip to the rarely visited Leaning Towers in British Columbia's Purcell Wilderness, Jenny Abegg considers the limits of what it means to \u003cem\u003eleave no trace\u003c\/em\u003e. Meanwhile, Paula Wright finds Horn's mother\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eClimbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eEmily Stifler Wolfe climbs a \"different kind of big wall\" under the light of the moon. Kathy Karlo considers the value of sentimentality in climbing. Tashi Sherpa stands atop Denali twice in three days—and explains why. And Laura Waterman becomes a mountain steward.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWired\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003e\"Mountaineering history might be dominated by the winners,\" German scholar Caroline Schaumann writes. \"But mountaineering literature is frequently written by those who have to come to terms with failure.\" In this essay, Schaumann suggests that the literary theme of the \"art of failure\" was perfected by the Prussian naturalist and adventurer Alexander von Humboldt, whose philosophic writings and attempt on Chimborazo propelled him to fame in the early nineteenth century.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAfter the death of Ueli Steck, Stephan Siegrist recalls the friendship that grew between them on the terrifying North Face of the Eiger, the mountain that the late Swiss alpinist called \"home.\"\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLocal Hero\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eKapil Bisht profiles Lopsang Tshering Sherpa, whose impressive feats as a high-altitude expedition staff member and later sirdar on expeditions to Kumbhakarna (Jannu) and Annapurna have long been overlooked.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOff Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eJerry Auld describes a close encounter in the Seward Glacier.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e","brand":"Alpinist","offers":[{"title":"Print Issue","offer_id":7801775390748,"sku":"ALPI612018","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Issue (PDF)","offer_id":29425324556376,"sku":"ALPI612019D","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/8383\/products\/alpinist-magazine-issue-61-cover.jpg?v=1519405088"},{"product_id":"alpinist-magazine-issue-62","title":"Alpinist Magazine Issue 62 - Summer 2018","description":"\u003cp\u003eInside \u003cem\u003eAlpinist\u003c\/em\u003e 62 are more than 114 pages of words and images that examine both historical and modern mountaineering from a wide range of perspectives. You’ll find the first part of a two-part series on the climbing history of Nanda Devi, Nanda Devi East and Nanda Kot. Within this first part, American alpinist and author Pete Takeda examines the complex interweaving of international mountaineering, local traditions and global politics that helped shape travel and exploration in the Garhwal Himalaya of India,  from centuries’ old religious pilgrimages to climbs of the 1930s. (The years 1940 to 2018 will be covered in the second part, appearing in Alpinist 63.) Paula Wright, Julia Pulwicki and Stewart Weaver also provide accounts of a few early mountaineering expeditions to the region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition, you’ll get a chance to learn more about the prolific career of Japanese alpinist Yasushi Yamanoi, known for alpine-style first ascents on some of the world’s highest and most challenging peaks—as told by Indian climber and liaison officer Sartaj Ghuman. Anindya Mukherjee, another mountaineer from India, recounts some of his expeditions, often accompanied by local Lepcha residents, around the East Ridge of Kangchenjunga. Meanwhile in the US, Joe Whittle, an enrolled tribal member of the Caddo Nation and a descendent of the Delaware Nation, recounts a trip with other Native Americans to the Wal’wá·maXs (Wallowa Mountains of Oregon), as part of an exploration of ancestral connections to mountain lands. Among other articles: Lauren Smith writes of climbing and ornithology as means to seek close experiences of nature; Amanda Padoan shares stories of the great winter alpinist Muhammad Ali of Sadpara, Pakistan; Sara Aranda describes how an experience of the eclipse in the Wind River Range influenced her understanding of family, mortality and self—and much, much more….  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eMountain Profile: Nanda Devi, Part I\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eFrom the nineteenth century to the 1930s, visiting climbers strove to find ways to get closer to a 7816-meter summit that gleamed beyond a ring of seemingly impassable obstacles. For many people from the Garhwal Himalaya of India, the mountain of Nanda Devi is the abode of a goddess. American alpinist Pete Takeda first became drawn to the area when he heard about a plutonium-powered device lost somewhere on the peak in the 1960s. In this first part of a two-part series on the legacies of climbing on Nanda Devi—and the nearby summits of Nanda Devi East and Nanda Kot—Takeda explores the interweaving of mountaineering, mythologies and politics that have helped shape the history of the region. Stewart Weaver, Paula Wright and Julia Pulwicki share tales of early expeditions to this ecologically fragile, sacred place.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTo Look the Bear in the Eye\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAmong the few who have established new climbs, alone and in alpine style, on 8000-meter peaks, Yasushi Yamanoi made a rapid first ascent of a line on the southwest face of Cho Oyu in 1994—only one of many significant routes that earned him a Piolet d'Or Asia Lifetime Achievement Award. Disinclined to self-promote, the Japanese alpinist strives to climb quietly and to leave little trace. Indian liaison officier Sartaj Ghuman joins Yamanoi on an expedition in the Zanskar region of India in search of a deeper dialogue with the wild.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eIn Perpetual Motion\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAs photographer Krystle Wright considers which images to capture, she discovers that the answer often lies in the void and in the unspoken.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eSharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eA mountain of data.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eA British poet mails a letter to an American friend. One reader says that mountains aren't spiritual; another says they are.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn Upon That Mountain, published in 1943, British mountaineer Eric Shipton wrote, \"the detailed exploration of the world is very far from complete.\" Around seven decades later, Indian climber Anindya Mukherjee journeys through dense forests in the Sikkim Himalaya to look for uncharted places within the folds along Kangchenjunga's East Ridge.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eClimbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eLauren Smith searches for grace; Amanda Padoan visits with the great Pakistani winter alpinist Muhammad Ali of Sadpara; Anne Haven McDonnell finds poetry in spindrift; and Penn Newhard dreams of ghosts or angels.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eWith her friend Eliza Earle, Sara Aranda heads into the Wind River Range of Wyoming to watch the solar eclipse of 2017—and finds herself journeying into the darkness beneath existence itself.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWired\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eWhile dissecting the concept of \"wilderness\" and examining the history of Indigenous erasure from lands across North America, Joe Whittle also reclaims—and rejoices in— his own ancestral connection with the land during a trip in the Wal'wá·maXs (Wallowa Mountains).\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOff Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eDerek Franz commemorates the Bird.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e","brand":"Alpinist","offers":[{"title":"Print Issue","offer_id":8171021828184,"sku":"ALPI622018","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Issue (PDF)","offer_id":29425626185816,"sku":"ALPI622018D","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/8383\/products\/alpinist-magazine-issue-62-cover.jpg?v=1526671152"},{"product_id":"alpinist-magazine-issue-63","title":"Alpinist Magazine Issue 63 - Autumn 2018","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAlpinist \u003c\/em\u003e63, you’ll find the second and final part of our series on the history of Nanda Devi and nearby peaks in India’s Garhwal Himalaya. \u003cstrong\u003ePete Takeda\u003c\/strong\u003e’s effort to trace a mysterious rumor involving a covert CIA operation on the sacred mountain known as the headwaters of the Ganges, as well as to investigate expeditions’ environmental effects from 1940 through the Cold War to the present day, proves nearly as monumental as Nanda Devi herself. 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In Part II of his series on the history of Nanda Devi and some of its neighboring peaks, Pete Takeda recalls the varied influences of spiritual beliefs, cultural shifts and political conflicts on post-World War II ascents—as well as the mounting environmental damage that contributed to the closure of the Sanctuary in 1982 and to the uncertainty of the region's future. Meera Baindur, Julie-Ann Clyma, Martin Moran and Harish Kapadia share their own explorations of landscapes, legends and communities surrounding one of the most sacred mountains in the Garhwal Himalaya of India.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThrough the Canvas\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn both painting and climbing, Canadian artist Jenna Robinson explores mountain landscapes from the inside, looking to create \"an elusive balance between shadows and highlights; warm colors and cold; patterns and diversions.\"\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Light on the Snow\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 2008, when Katsutaka Yokoyama, Yusuke Sato and Fumitaka Ichimura made the first linkup of the Isis Face and Slovak Direct routes on Denali, climbers around the world were astounded by the length, difficulty and rapid, minimalist style. Nearly a decade later, still pursuing innovative forms of alpinism, Yokoyama set out with Takaaki Nagato to complete the first ascent of Sun Patch Spur, a nearly six-kilometer-long combination of the southwest ridge of K7 West and the southwest face of Badal Peak in the Karakoram Range of Pakistan.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eSharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eSilences at dawn.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn response to Eileen Guo's Alpinist 61 article—\"Dreaming of Afghan Mountains\"— a German reader shares the story of how his father helped build the first ski lift in Afghanistan.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn September 2017, Szu-ting Yi and Dave Anderson attempted to traverse 100-plus miles of the Wind River Range while climbing all forty-three of its peaks that rise along the Continental Divide (and that are named in 2015 USGS maps). What started as a whimsical project for Yi soon transformed into a deeper search for independence as a woman and a climber.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eClimbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eWhitney Clark dreams of invisible mountains. Shawnté Salabert seeks the late guidebook author R.J. Secor's most mysterious peak. Jerry Auld imagines new ranges of the future. And David Stevenson explores a geography of lost time to remember his son.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 1972, barely out of high school, Doug McCarty and Brian Leo completed the first winter ascent of the North Face of 12,799-foot Granite Peak—only to endure an icy bivy on the remote summit. More than four decades later, McCarty recalls subzero temperatures and severe frostbite, as well as a ghostly \"strange music\" that helped him survive.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLocal Hero\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003ePaula Wright extols Maryanne Reiter, a longtime mountain rescuer, climber and seeker of beauty in the Oregon Cascades.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOff Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAmid the cliffs of the desert Southwest, Katherine Indermaur witnesses the vulnerability of America's open spaces.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e","brand":"Alpinist","offers":[{"title":"Print Issue","offer_id":12604317204568,"sku":"ALPI632018","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Issue (PDF)","offer_id":29425627562072,"sku":"ALPI632018D","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/8383\/products\/alpinist-magazine-issue-63-cover.jpg?v=1535656463"},{"product_id":"alpinist-magazine-issue-64","title":"Alpinist Magazine Issue 64 - Winter 2018","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlpinist | Winter 2018 | An Invisible Compass\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eAll from Nothing\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eForty years ago, Jim Donini, Michael Kennedy, George Lowe and Jeff Lowe made an attempt on the North Ridge of Latok I that became a legend. Decades later, the peak has dominated headlines again: in July 2018, Alexander Gukov and Sergey Glazunov reached a new highpoint before an accident resulted in Glazunov's death; in early August, Aleš Česen, Luka Stražar and Tom Livingstone summited the mountain by a variation of the North Ridge; and later that month, back in Colorado, Jeff Lowe passed away, after a long struggle with illness. Herein, Livingstone, Gukov and Donini reflect on the events of this season and some of the history that continues to reverberate in the climbing world today.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Elixir\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAs climbing artist Sarah Uhl paints mountains, she seeks to capture more than just their physical outlines—the essence of the wild itself.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Secret of Silence\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eFrom the muting of opposition by the Communist regime of 1970s Poland, to the quiet of remote wild places in the Himalaya and the Arctic, Polish big-wall climber Marek Raganowicz has experienced many different varieties of silence. In 2017, during a winter expedition to the vast granite of Baffin Island, amid the intense cold and frequent solitude, he encountered his most moving experience of stillness yet.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLife Compass\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn March 2018, Brette Harrington's life partner, Marc-André Leclerc, died in the Mendenhall Towers of Alaska, with Ryan Johnson. About a month later, she traveled to the Canadian Rockies to immerse herself in the wintry alpine landscapes that remind her most of him. Exploring unclimbed terrain on Mt. 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Kelly Sokol explores the multiple meanings of exposure. Claire Giordano paints on permits. Katherine Indermaur claws her way toward the light. Alexandra Lev learns the haunting stories behind a mysterious volume in her father's bookshelf. And the unstoppable Tami Knight presents \"8000m—The Game.\"\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAfter his climbing partner nearly dies in an accident on Cerro Torre, Quentin Lindfield Roberts confronts the long journey home and the occasionally even-greater dangers of daily life.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWired\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eA Navajo (Diné) climber, Len Necefer, takes a white mountaineer, Brody Leven, on a winter attempt of Sisnaajiní (Blanca Peak), one of the four major sacred peaks of Dinétah, the Diné homeland. 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Hansen observed, \"Many great western canyons are as well remembered for their brightly colored walls as for their airy depths. Not so the Black Canyon…. The dark-gray tones of its walls and the hazy shadows of its gloomy depths join together to make its name well deserved. Its name conveys an impression, not a picture.\" Spanning nearly fifty miles in western Colorado and plunging over 2,000 feet deep, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison has allured and repulsed climbers for more than eighty years with harrowing tales of gothic spires, tumbling blocks and poison ivy. Herein, Vic Zeilman recounts decades of adventures, from Ute people and early European American explorers who descended into the deep chasm to modern climbers who ventured up its steepest, biggest walls. Jamie Logan, Ed Webster and Amanda Tarr Forrest share some of their encounters with the storied cliffs, which even today, maintain a sense of mystery.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eRocks, Clouds, Ice and Water\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eFor decades, Indian photojournalist Sujoy Das wandered the Himalaya taking pictures of the highest peaks—until he realized how much he missed by not looking more closely at the paths beneath his feet.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOver the Edge and Off the Map\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAbout 110 miles from the Scottish coast, the archipelago of St Kilda was once home to a centuries' old culture whose members scaled steep cliffs to hunt seabirds to support their community. To tourists, the islands seemed to form a surreal utopia, an \"Ultima Thule,\" where they might live out fantasies of lost paradises. By 1930, however, the original inhabitants, no longer able to maintain their traditional way of life, felt compelled to leave. In 2017 Scottish climber Natalie Berry traveled with Dave MacLeod and Chris Prescott to explore possible new routes and examine some of the consequences of the desire for terra incognita.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eSharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOur editor-in-chief revisits a few of the many—but often-forgotten—climbing novels and short stories by nineteenth to twenty-first century women.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn May 2018, Matt Spohn sets out to make a ground-up free ascent of El Corazon on Yosemite's El Capitan, with the legendary Josh Wharton. Along the way, Spohn attempts to come to terms with the inescapability of uncertainty—on the wall, in his own life and in the future of this earth.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eClimbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eCameron M. Burns learns to belay from an eccentric mentor. Sarah Audsley seeks the true meaning of wild. Angela McPherson trains to climb for an unusual reason. Robbi Mecus realizes her unique perspective. 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In an oral history, friends and family join Lonnie in narrating his journey from growing up beneath the granite cliffs of Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La (El Capitan) to seeking to honor his ancestors through his first redpoint ascent of his father’s Magic Line, considered one of the most difficult single-pitch trad climbs in the Valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*The digital issue is a downloadable pdf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eMagic Line\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThe son of legendary climber Ron Kauk and Ahwahneechee descendant Lucy Parker, Lonnie Kauk has long felt a deep connection to the rocks of his home in Yosemite Valley. In this oral history, Lonnie, friends and family recount his journey from growing up beneath the granite cliffs of Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La (El Capitan) to making the first redpoint ascent of his father's Magic Line, once considered the most difficult single-pitch climb in the Valley.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eMoonshadow\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eJeremy Collins reflects on a few of the luminaries of Zion––from the Indigenous Paiute people to legendary climber Jeff Lowe and famed painters and artists––in the only way he knows how: climbing the sandstone towers and picking up a pencil to draw. In Collins's attempt to free climb Moonlight Buttress, he finds just what he was looking for in its shadow.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThirteen Feet Under\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eLast April, while scouting ice climbs deep within Canada's Banff National Park, Michelle Kadatz was engulfed by an avalanche that swept her 650 feet down slope and buried her at a depth far beyond the reach of her partners' avalanche probes. Her improbable rescue, however, wasn't as unusual as what she experienced while entombed thirteen feet under. A year layer, Jayme Moye recounts Kadatz's accident.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThrough the Lens\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 2015 Amy Liu was at base camp preparing for an ascent of Chomolungma (Mt. Everest) when an earthquake hit Nepal. Struck in her tent by avalanche debris, Liu was later air-lifted from base camp to a hospital. 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Meanwhile, Diné climber Len Necefer ventures to Waw Giwulk, a sacred peak to the Tohono O'odham people in southern Arizona.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTool User\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eFor thousands of years, humans have left traces of their presence on mountain summits. Herein, Allison Williams documents the rise of a peculiarly American method of chronicling ascents: the summit register.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eClimbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAustyn Gaffney seeks out vistas. Cassidy Randall chronicles the life and times of mountaineer Mary Vaux, one of the few women studying glacial recession at the end of the nineteenth century. Chip Brown considers what the mountain kept. Tami Knight forgets her password, while Derek Franz searches for words among the rocks. 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Among the Stikine Icefield's unclimbed peaks—and through the friendship of his partner, Max Hasson—Jens Holsten finds his way back home.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Sharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThe editor of \u003cem\u003eAlpinist\u003c\/em\u003e sounds off.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eMick Fowler deflowers the UK's virgin summits. Lisa Hathaway follows trails of bones to the micro-featured walls of Mill Creek, Utah. 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Kennedy, Mt. Hubbard and Mt. Alverstone by \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Stevenson. \u003c\/strong\u003eForming part of the boundary between Alaska and the Yukon, the St. Elias Range can seem both “remote” and nearly “empty,” as Stevenson writes. But these expanses of mountains, ice, rock and snows are layered with stories of human journeys, from the landscape tales of Indigenous Tlingit people to the adventures of generations of famous climbers—including a first ascent by the senator Robert F. Kennedy, a few years before his assassination. \u003cstrong\u003eAnna Chiburis\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eAndrea Rankin\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eJack Tackle\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eBarry Blanchard\u003c\/strong\u003e also share moments from the vast history of this intense and haunting place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*The digital issue is a downloadable pdf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCover\u003c\/strong\u003e: Jack Tackle before Mt. Kennedy (13,905') in the St. Elias Range, with the wall of Arctic Discipline (aka: \"A Pair of Jacks,\" Alaska Grade VI M6 WI5+) in the shadow. He and Jack Roberts first climbed the route to the North Ridge in 1996. \u003cstrong\u003e[Photo]\u003c\/strong\u003e Jack Roberts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eMountain Profile: Mt. Hubbard, Mt. Alverstone and Mt. Kennedy\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAt first glance, author David Stevenson writes, parts of the St. Elias Range of Alaska can seem both \"remote\" and nearly \"empty.\" But these expanses of mountains, ice, rock and snows are layered with stories of human journeys, from the landscape tales of Indigenous Tlingit people to the adventures of generations of famous climbers—including a first ascent by the senator Robert F. Kennedy, a few years before his assassination. And in the modern era, like many glaciated regions, the range has become one symbol of a growing climate crisis. For this Mountain Profile, Stevenson focuses on stories surrounding the region inside the 1968 Hubbard-Alverstone-Kennedy map directed by the great explorer Bradford Washburn. Anna Chiburis, Andrea Rankin, Jack Tackle and Barry Blanchard share moments from the vast history of this intense and haunting place.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Shadow's Edge\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAfter recovering from a severe childhood illness, Claire Giordano grew up to become a mountaineer and an artist, using her climbs and her paints to explore the fragility of both wild landscapes and human life. With this collection of mountain watercolors, she searches for hope in an era of melting ice, endangered glaciers and climate crises. \"We walk the line between shadow and light,\" she writes, \"and we slowly move forward.\"\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Rhythm of the Mountains\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOn March 21, 2019, Jim Reynolds became the first person to free solo both up and down Fitz Roy, a 3405-meter spire in Patagonia. In this story, Reynolds recounts the inner experience of the journey—an effort to move according to the cadence of a wild peak and to return home safely to his beloved community, family and friends.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eSharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eA short history of un-discoveries.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOur readers write.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eLongtime Alpinist correspondent Pete Takeda returns to Québec to climb ice in Gaspésie, part of Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral homeland of Mi'kmaw people. Along the edges between coastlines, mountains, cliffs and sea, he experiences landscapes where the legends of the past and the uncertainties of the future remain in constant flux.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTool User\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAndy Selters recounts the origins and the legacy of alpinist Todd Bibler's legendary creation, the I-Tent.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eClimbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThe intrepid Bosley Sidwell interviews one of Alex Honnold's most famous free-soloing peers: a skyscraper-climbing raccoon. Maria Anderson pens a fiction story about a mother and daughter rope team. Ed Roberson ponders the Age of the Climber. Brendan Leonard creates an epic listicle. And Ana Beatriz Cholo explains why sometimes mountains are better left unclimbed.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eEver since he was a boy, Chip Chace had dreamed of soloing Sivanitirutinguak (Mt. Asgard). Chris Weidner recounts key moments of the late Colorado climber's life and examines what happens when the outcome of a lifelong quest proves to be entirely different than expected.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWired\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 1913 Walter Harper, an Irish-Athabascan climber, became the first person to stand on the summit of Denali, soon joined by teammates Harry Karstens, Robert Tatum and Archdeacon Hudson Stuck. 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Alongside the draft Kennedy left behind, Jeremy Collins, Clay Wadman, Tessa Lyons, Vic Zeilman and Paula Wright share a few images of climbing's illustrated worlds.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003ePandora's Box\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 2009 Japanese alpinist Kei Taniguchi became the first woman to receive a Piolet d'Or for her first ascent of the Southeast Face of Kamet (7756m), with Kazuya Hiraide. During the final years of her life, Taniguchi continued to explore challenging new routes, while hinting at a mysterious personal quest. Piecing together diary entries and interviewing family and friends, her biographer Akihiro Oishi tries to see inside what Taniguchi called \"the Pandora's box.\"\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLess Rich Without You\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 2018, at age fifty-two, famed British mountaineer Nick Bullock left for his twenty-fourth expedition: a journey to attempt a new route on Minya Konka, a 7556-meter peak in Sichuan Province, China. Amid heavy mist and falling snow, he and his climbing partner Paul Ramsden searched for a way through the hazardous maze of an icefall—and through the allures and pitfalls of a modern professional climbing life.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eBlood That Dreams of Stone\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eDuring the early twentieth century, the talented young poet Antonia Pozzi sought freedom from her family and her society amid the rock spires of the Dolomites and other Italian peaks. David Smart provides an introduction to her career, along with translations of three of her climbing poems, with the help of Brian McKenzie.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eSharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eRetracing the steps of a famous guidebook author, our editor-in-chief goes on a pilgrimage to an alpine basin left off most maps.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOur readers write.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eFor 141 years since its first ascent, mountaineers from around the world traveled to climb la Meije in the Massif des Écrins of France. Meanwhile, the permafrost that held its stones together was melting. On August 7, 2018, rockfall destroyed much of the normal route. Two locally based guides—Benjamin Ribeyre and Erin Smart—recount a search for a new way up the peak amid the uncertainties of the planet's future.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTool User\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eJohn Hessler explores the history of an energy bar invented in 1869: the famously (or infamously) sweet Kendal Mint Cake.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eClimbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eErin Connery has a perfect climbing day. Derek Franz learns to keep quiet. David Wilson observes the end of winter. Rebecca Young climbs above the flames. David Guterson turns around. Tami Knight strikes (yet again). Spencer Gray retraces second lines.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWired\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn mountains across Turtle Island (North America), Anishinaabe climber Kayla DeVault de Wendt seeks a means to find harmony between current practices of outdoor recreation and ongoing traditions of Indigenous peoples.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLocal Hero\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eWhether they've collected summits, books or memories, many climbers long to preserve records of the past. Paula Wright presents the person responsible for cataloguing and managing one of the most extensive of these collections: Katie Sauter, director of the Henry S. 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Within a few decades, however, Mont Blanc would become the focal point for the dreams of philosophers, poets and mountaineers alike. By 1776 Geneva travel writer Marc-Théodore Bourrit had declared of the peak: “The image of upheaval and chaos, ideas of eternity and nothingness, of revolutions and order, appear all together at once; the imagination remains silent.” John Hessler and Paula Wright recount scenes from the history of the highest mountain in Western Europe, from the controversies surrounding the first ascent in 1786 to the proliferation of famous routes to the impacts of today’s climate crisis. David Smart, Claude Gardien and Ben Tibbetts contribute glimpses of individual quests on a mountain that has come to symbolize a universe of wonder and a world in peril.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eSecrets on the Maps\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn his mid-eighties, Japanese mountaineer and photographer Tamotsu Nakamura remains one of the most prolific and indefatigable modern explorers. Herein, a collection of images from one of his recent journeys into the ranges of Tibet, where he encountered a landscape of still-untouched summits—but also of melting glaciers, cultural loss and rapid change.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLink Sar\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn the summer of 2019, Graham Zimmerman, Steve Swenson, Mark Richey and Chris Wright left for the Kaberi Glacier in the Karakoram Range of Pakistan to climb Link Sar—a long-dreamed-of 7041-meter peak. For Zimmerman, the expedition was a chance to learn from some of the most experienced Karakoram mountaineers, as well as to challenge some of his own youthful assumptions about alpinism, risk and life.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eSharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAmid recent Himalayan news about inaccurate summit claims, our editor-in-chief asks: What is the measure of a mountain?\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eA reader recalls a favorite climb with a favorite \u003cem\u003eAlpinist\u003c\/em\u003e writer.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn August 2019, nearly two years after Hayden Kennedy’s death, Jesse Huey and Maury Birdwell set out to complete one of their friend’s dreams: a direct finish to a route that Kennedy and Whit Magro had established on Mt. 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Anaheed Saatchi interviews a few of the many women who are transforming modern climbing culture.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eJoe Purtell confronts fear, grief and beauty in the Cirque of the Unclimbables.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWired\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAs the news about today’s climate crises grows increasingly grim, Manasseh Franklin explores how climbing writers might be able to help inspire positive action.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLocal Hero\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003ePaul Koubek shares scenes from the life of climbing guide and award-winning YOSAR team member Jo Whitford.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOff Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eKatharine Erwin presents the mysterious Wolf of EEOR.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e","brand":"Alpinist","offers":[{"title":"Print Issue","offer_id":32406910861400,"sku":"ALPI692020","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Issue Only (PDF)","offer_id":32406910894168,"sku":"ALPI692020D","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/8383\/products\/alpinist-magazine-issue-69-cover.jpg?v=1583247104"},{"product_id":"alpinist-magazine-issue-70","title":"Alpinist Magazine Issue 70 - Summer 2020","description":"\u003c!--\u003cp\u003e*The digital issue is a downloadable pdf\u003c\/p\u003e--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCover\u003c\/strong\u003e: Mike Stuart ascends Bankhead Buttress on Cascade Mountain (Minihapa, 9,386') in Banff National Park, Canada. 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After doctors fused vertebrae in his back and neck, he decided to have his right leg amputated below the knee. He now mentors others who have suffered life-altering injuries, all while making the most of life with his wife and kids.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eEncounter with the Alien\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn August 2000, Jeff Smoot was climbing near Monte Cristo peak when a stranger with wild red hair passed by him alone. Later, as reports of a missing hiker emerged on the news, Smoot realized that he might've been the last person to see him alive. Amid strange reports of alien conspiracies and clandestine research, Smoot searches for the true story of Mike Wessels and what might've compelled him to climb alone that day.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Monochromatic Mountain\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAs he flies above the peaks, photographer John Scurlock searches for a glimpse of the view that he'd always sought as a climber. Herein, Scurlock describes the journey toward the perspective that he's come to call \"the Monochromatic Mountain.\"\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eSharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eRoaming in place.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOur readers write in about the importance of mentors; the life and death of Mont Blanc; and the perils of social media.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eTucked away in northern New Hampshire, the Presidential Range spans about twenty miles in the White Mountains. After years of seeking faraway alpine objectives, New Englander Michael Wejchert searches out a new route, and a renewed sense of adventure, in the wildness next door. 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The climb is one of three roof cracks at the Tennessee Wall that make up the Triple Crown series. Karlo became the first woman known to complete an ascent of all three in December 2019. \u003cstrong\u003e[Photo] \u003c\/strong\u003eAndrew Burr\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTerra Arcana\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIt seems only natural that climbers drawn to the mountains are also drawn to art that depicts them. In this brief survey of artists who recreate in the landscapes they render, Mailee Hung considers the articulation of the unknowable in climbing and landscape art. Featuring art by Jeremy Collins, Lizzy Dalton, Rhiannon Klee Williams, Craig Muderlak, Renan Ozturk and Rachel Pohl.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Line of Shadow\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 2016 alpinist Brette Harrington received a message from her partner, Marc-André Leclerc, containing a photo of an unclimbed crescent line on Torre Egger in the Southern Patagonian Icecap. Years later, Harrington traveled to the massif with Quentin Lindfield Roberts to complete an ascent of the line they named MA's Visión.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eBeyond the Field Notes\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eBorn in 1939 in Pittsburgh, poet Ed Roberson nurtured a \"burgeoning curiosity for the world\" from a young age. On his first major mountain- eering expedition, he made the second ascent of Nevado Jangyaraju III in Peru. Herein, Sarah Audsley interviews Roberson about how his notes from the field came to shape some of his prize-winning work.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eMountains of Grief\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003e\"When the mountain community...grapples with the accidental death of one of its members,\" Anna Callaghan writes, \"only one thing is certain: it's going to happen again.\" Through interviews with several climbers who've lost loved ones to the mountains, Callaghan explores the ways in which people across the climbing community are banding together to address grief and support the bereaved.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eSharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOf monuments and mountains.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOur readers write.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAlong the Tennessee Wall, a trio of difficult roof cracks known as the Triple Crown had yet to be climbed by a woman when Kathy Karlo first visited the area in 2014. Years later, in the aftermath of a painful experience, Karlo returns to the Tennessee Wall to heal—and to make a historic ascent.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTool User\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eWhat's a glass instrument measuring four feet long and filled with mercury doing in your rucksack? Caroline Schaumann and Bruce Willey reveal the history of the glass barometer.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Climbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eErin Connery shares a mysterious ascent. Stephen Kurczy visits Seneca Rocks. Erin Smart becomes an IFMGA guide. Matthew Shipton reveals ancient mountaineering stories. And Miranda Oakley seeks out moments of peace in the wadis.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAlpinist Scott Coldiron had little interest in ice climbing until an incident in 2008, when he suddenly found himself stuck on an icy slope with a broken crampon and no easy way down.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWired\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn the face of ongoing uncertainty and the threat of climate change, Diné climber Len Necefer journeys to the peaks to find new ways to meld his ancestral cultural ceremonies and the mountain sports he loves.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLocal Hero\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eKhamsang Wangdi Sherpa was an essential member of numerous high-altitude ascents in the 1950s and 60s. 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Climbs in this region of the Shawangunks have not appeared in any printed guidebook. \u003cstrong\u003e[Photo] \u003c\/strong\u003eChris Vultaggio\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eGunks Chronicles\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eBarely 100 miles north of New York City, the steep, airy cliffs of the Shawangunks have long collected a rich lore of hard routes, wild antics and eccentric personalities—from the legendary conflicts between the rule-making Appies and the rollicking Vulgarians to the stylists of the clean-climbing revolution and the age of Lycra, and all the varied bands of old and young climbers who continue to enjoy the crags today. Northeast climbing historian Laura Waterman presents a collection of stories from Gunks protagonists across the decades, including Steven Jervis, Bonnie Prudden, Joe Kelsey, John Bragg, Russ Clune and Whitney Boland.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eSoft Power\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eFor years, artist Zaria Forman has created drawings of glaciers so intense that viewers feel as if they're present. Herein, Alpinist contributor Mailee Hung presents some of Forman's work and her potential impact on climb- ers' understanding of climate change.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTaken Before Its Time\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAfter decades of remote expeditions, Nick Bullock travels to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison to seek \"the essence of climbing.\" Amid the area's deep voids, he finds himself haunted by absences of his past and uncertainties of the future.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDepartments\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eSharp End\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eThe naming of visible and invisible hills and mountains.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eLetters\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eAlpinist\u003c\/em\u003e contributor Sasha Turrentine writes a letter to her late father.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eOn Belay\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 1977 a young Michael Kennedy set out with two of his heroes, Jeff Lowe and George Lowe, on the Alaskan expedition that culminated in the first ascent of the famous Infinite Spur on Mt. Foraker\/Sultana. Looking back on that summer, Kennedy recalls how the name of the route grew to represent \"far more than the physical dimensions of the climb.\"\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTool User\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eBrandon Blackburn investigates one of the most paradigm- shifting tools of modern alpinism: accurate weather reports.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThe Climbing Life\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eEndria Richardson seeks a new language of climbing. Mauricio Portillo recounts his experiences as a mountaineer and a Dreamer. Amrita Dhar finds old music on red sandstone. And Rebecca Shanahan embarks on a rarely discussed rite of passage.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFull Value\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIn 1990 alpinist Barry Blanchard found himself trapped in a blizzard high on Yuh-hai-has-kun (Mt. 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