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Visions of Charlie Porter: Introduction
“…[A]ll was done quietly, unremarked upon, in classic Porter fashion. With his reticence, [Charlie] Porter was “old-school,” a classical figure from the pre-social, un-hyperlinked past in which actions carried greater weight than words and images…. Thus it’s mainly through hist friends and partners, a few of whom have contributed the essays that follow, that we…
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An Interview with Alpinist Contributor Forest McBrian
Fresh off deadline, the author of our latest Mountain Profile–the North Cascades’ Picket Range–Forest McBrian sat down to debrief and explain why, among other nuggets of wisdom, “climbing is like mapping is like writing.”
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The Picket Range: Contagious Magic
Picket Range Mountain Profile writer Forest McBrian writes a short story about sharing his spiritual reconnection to the Pickets with his late stepmother.
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Video: Revelations Climbing, A Day in the Life
Songwriter and videographer Evan Phillips tells the story of a Revelation Mountains first ascent–without any hype.
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11 The Sharp End: A Wild of One’s Own
Editor-in-Chief Katie Ives searches for “A Wild of One’s Own” in the annals of women’s mountaineering history in Western Canada and the writings of Mary Schaeffer Warren, who urges, “…leave your world, your recognized world, and plunge into the vast unknown.”
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Scenes from the Alpinist Office on Deadline
After months of working with writers to edit, revise and fact-check the stories that make up Issue 47 of our magazine, all that’s left for editors Katie Ives, Gwen Cameron and Shey Kiester to do is proofread.
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Soloist Jes Meiris on Going Up the Nose and Falling Down
“I wanted to climb it solo in a push, without hauling or sleeping, and I knew that if I was successful I would break the record…. It was appealing because no woman had done it in that style before, and besides, let’s face it–hauling sucks.”
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Slideshow: A Busy Season in the Revelations
Following years of quiet climbing, Alaska’s Revelation Mountains see their most active season on record.
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Video: ‘A Tribute to Discomfort’
Cory Richards, a regular Alpinist contributor, considers the realm of the uncomfortable along with the realities of modern alpinism.
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Hermann Buhl: A Hero Undiminished
Jerzy Porebski and artist Ewa Labaj explore the great alpinist’s life in a comic strip. For many, including Reinhold Messner, Buhl was, and always will be, a legend. “When Buhl was declared missing I cried, too,” Messner wrote.
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