Backcountry Magazine 137 - The Deep Winter Issue Alpinist 63

Backcountry Magazine 137 - The Deep Winter Issue Alpinist 63Follow the higher calling with the Deep Winter Issue. Inside, we draw back the curtains on X Games expat Sammy Carlson to see how a park skier at the top of his game has turned into a backcountry devotee. But first, we learn how Tyson Rettie, a guide who lost his vision, is getting back on snow and bringing other blind skiers along. Then, former patroller Alex Armstrong reflects on how small mistakes can have massive consequences in the mountains.

Diana Rivera is turning to a new medium—filmmaking— to highlight women who refuse to lock down their heels

Lito Tejada-Flores and Doug Tompkins banded together to try to make a great movie out of an El Capitan ascent

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an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall left sixteen Nepali expedition workers dead

still recreate in the backcountry

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Everest) when an earthquake hit Nepal

On the Cover: While shooting in Engelberg

In Memoriam Jeremy Collins pays tribute to the victims of Nanga Parbat

remote and sharply defined

For five days