Alpinist Magazine Issue 38 - Spring 2012 Apparel

Alpinist Magazine Issue 38 - Spring 2012 ApparelFeatures Mountain Profile: K2, Part II (19742012) For the final part of our two part series, Steve Swenson returns to the history of K2 (8611m) in 1974, as the fighting in Kashmir subsides and the Karakoram Range reopens to the outside world. 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

8 feet (178 cm) tall

much of the Wind River Range of Wyoming remains relatively quiet

Letters Our readers remember

" Ian Parnell discovers that even small moments and peaks can seem Himalayan at times

On Belay Most climbers associate Reinhold Messner with the rise of alpine-style ascents in the Himalaya

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EDITOR'S NOTE: THAT SLIDING FEELING

" Renny Jackson retells stories drawn from more than a century of written records and oral tradition—from vision quests to epic rescues—about the tallest peak of Wyoming's Teton Range

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which created some of the Northeast's most iconic ski trails

The Sharp End A map of imaginary mountains

" Around seven decades later