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One of Alpinist’s most historic issues. Dean Potter shot by Jimmy Chin on the cover, and inside, a snapshot of the climbing world from 2015, including Chris Van Leuven’s tribute to Potter, “Going Home,” which earned the award for Best American Sports Writing 2016.
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Issue 51 · Autumn 2015
Features
Mountain Profile: The Aiguille du Dru Part II (1955–2015)
“It seemed built to perpetuate our dreams”—thus Guido Magnone described the Aiguille du Dru in The West Face. Ian Parnell relives the history of a peak poised between mountaineering fantasies and environmental realities. Royal Robbins, Claude Remy, Andy Parkin and Jérôme Sullivan share dispatches from the past to the future.
Going Home
Dean Potter, Graham Hunt and Sean Leary were climbers and BASE jumpers who shared a passion for the freedom of the air. After their deaths, Chris Van Leuven returns to Yosemite to remember them with the community they loved.
What the Heart Only Sees
In The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry exhorted generations of readers, “What is essential is invisible to the eye.” During a February 2015 trip to Patagonia, Brette Harrington free solos the granite spire named after the famous French author, following that motto deep into a hidden world of memory and longing.
The Mirror Cracked
On April 25, 2015, a massive earthquake struck Nepal, resulting in the deaths of thousands of people. Climber and journalist Ed Douglas reports on some of the effects of the disaster and the work of recovery in mountain villages.
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