Alpinist Magazine Issue 48 - Autumn-Winter 2014 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue Only (PDF)

Alpinist Magazine Issue 48 - Autumn-Winter 2014 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue Only (PDF)Features Mountain Profile In his Sierra guidebook The Good, the Great, and the Awesome, Peter Croft calls the Palisades "the most mountainous mountains in the Sierra Nevada." Half hidden behind foothills, these spiny 13,000 to 14,000 foot peaks have allured decades of alpinists, eccentrics and wanderers. Doug Robinson follows a "trail of mentors" that leads from the early mountaineers of the Sierra Club, to generations of prolific soloists such as the

he turns to a parable of the Eiger

the life and death of Mont Blanc

It’s no secret that living in a mountain town breaks the bank

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and the forecast was for a chance of clearing that evening

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Adam Howard tells his PyeongChang Olympic story and reflects on what Jessie Diggins’ and Kikkan Randall’s gold medal means for the future of U

friendly strangers and celebratory cuisine—punctuated by many toasts of rakia—offer a welcome change of pace for one Vermont-based explorer

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where the volunteers and stewards of the Oregon Timber Trail are reviving the four-year-old long-distance route after a devastating summer of wildfires