![The This Land is Our Land March for Public Lands congregated in front of the Utah capitol in Salt Lake City on July 27 in conjunction with the last Outdoor Retailer Summer Market trade show to be hosted by the city. OR recently agreed to move the trade show to Denver starting next year in response to Utah lawmakers' continued efforts to rescind Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments. [Photo] Emma Murray](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/outdoor-retailer-trade-show-feature-1-scaled.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
Sara Aranda and Emma Murray attended Salt Lake City’s last Outdoor Retailer Summer Market Trade Show to journal the demonstrations and conversations about public lands as well as race and gender equality in the outdoor industry. Here is what they saw and heard.
![Conrad Anker is the keynote speaker for the 2017 American Alpine Club Annual Benefit Dinner on February 25 in Seattle, Washington. [Photo] Jimmy Chin](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/aac-benefit-dinner-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
The American Alpine Club opens registration for its Annual Benefit Dinner on February 25 in Seattle, Washington. Five people will receive awards. Conrad Anker is the keynote speaker.
![El Hermano (ca. 4,500), Chile. In 2014 Libby Sauter's team mostly followed the sun-shadow line, and then cut to the right a few hundred feet from the top. [Photo] Doug Tompkins](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/beyond-the-dusk-1.jpg?resize=900%2C620&ssl=1)
After the death of her brother Michael in June 2012, Suzanne Ybarra noticed a reference to a mysterious “El Hermano” amid his files, along with photos of a massive unclimbed wall. In 2014 one of Michael’s friends, Libby Sauter, organized an expedition to make the first ascent and complete his dream.
Popular books recount the early days of Canadian mountaineering as a story of epic discoveries. In this story from Alpinist 50, historians Zac Robinson and Stephen Slemon examine what often gets left out: the extent to which the “explorers” relied on the prior geographic knowledge of Indigenous guides.
We asked Lise Billon and Jerome Sullivan, two of the four authors of “A Quartet for Silent Lands” in Alpinist 53 (the other two authors are Diego Simari and Antoine Moineville) to share additional photos from their story for us to post online.
![Tears of the Dragon (Russian Grade 6B, A3 M5, 1150m) marks the second ascent of the Great Wall (5120m) via the northeast face. [Photo] Team archive](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/great-wall-route.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
![The ten-pitch Wetterbockwand (5.14b, 350m). [Photo] Fabian Buhl](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/wetterbock-8c-route.jpg?resize=540%2C620&ssl=1)
![Jess Roskelley on lead through mixed terrain during the first ascent of Westman's World (VI M7 AI4X A3 70) on the Citadel (8,520') in the Kichatna Spires, Alaska. [Photo] Benjamin Erdmann](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/citadel-of-ice-and-wind-0495.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
