Alpinist Magazine Issue 62 - Summer 2018 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF)

Alpinist Magazine Issue 62 - Summer 2018 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF)Inside Alpinist 62 are more than 114 pages of words and images that examine both historical and modern mountaineering from a wide range of perspectives. Youll 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

It isn't breaking news that this region has tremendous influence on modern skiing in North America

in which the artist explores "what people choose to bring and what they take away from natural environments

When chased by an unforeseen rival

Lisa Roderick describes her first season as the manager of Kahiltna Basecamp

the first avalanche transceiver and a mid '90s Wasatch dawn patrol have in common

her expedition partner Alison Criscitiello recalls the story of their friendship and contemplates the tensions between our impulse to desire both love and risk

traveling with local riders from sacred shrines to all-time lines

regardless of a skier or rider’s ability or experience

Making the leap

ADAM SKLAR IS THAT GOOD Words by Trina Ortega

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Yet unlike the iconic Haute Route from Chamonix to Zermatt