Alpinist Magazine Issue 56 - Winter 2016 Alpinist 54Features Yosemite: A Layered Terrain In 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.
read why Pearl Pass became the perfect rendezvous point for the sport’s pioneers
in doing so
Andy Munas reflects on the harms that the mining industry has wrought—and the freedoms that climbing appears to promise
those days are spent with photographer Daniel Rönnbäck
wieners and relishing sloppy seconds
watch the rollout of Dynastar's new Cham line and ski with notable locals like steep ski pioneer Rémy Lécluse
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
Powderchaser Steve on meteorology and the pursuit of the untracked
photographer Stephanie Chall captured a season's worth of excitement
Letters Reflections on love and loss
Winds of Change
Tim Leach and Steve Bell—trying to understand the 1981 Annapurna III attempt that caused these men to scale back their alpinism and to search for other meanings in their lives: What if the most important peaks are the ones we never climb
