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Visions of Charlie Porter: Introduction
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“…[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 know anything of Porter’s feats.”
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An Interview with Alpinist Contributor Forest McBrian
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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
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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
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Songwriter and videographer Evan Phillips tells the story of a Revelation Mountains first ascent–without any hype.
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Scenes from the Alpinist Office on Deadline
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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
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“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
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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’
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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
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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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1992 | White as a Sheet
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2007 | Kaipo Wall
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2008 | Newcomers
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2008 | Incantation
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2012 | Cirque Creek
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The Illusion of Control
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Harvey Carter’s words become a catalyst for writer Chris Van Leuven’s quest to understand how climbing prepares us for the challenges of ordinary existence, the approach of old age and the unavoidability of loss.
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The Life, Times and Scary Climbs of John Turner (1931-2014)
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Fifty-five years ago, the famous Recompense at Cathedral Ledge was first climbed with wooden wedges. It was by the imagination and British boldness of this gentleman, John Turner, who injected new life into a stagnating New England climbing scene in the 1950s. Another New England great, Ed Webster, recounts Turners’ more venturesome climbing tales in this web feature.
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The End of the Everest Myth
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To look behind the layers of mythology that still gather around Mt. Everest is not merely a matter of pointing out differences in mountaineering styles. To the degree that Sherpas and other local guides remained invisible in international Everest stories, their concerns, their risks and the value of their lives appeared invisible, too.
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Three Springs
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“[I]n ‘post’-colonial democracies where ethnic minorities carry the burden of insidious and vicious prejudices at every turn, Sherpas are fortunate. Everyone loves us, everyone trusts us, and everyone wants their own collectable one of us….”
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Sean “Stanley” Leary: 1975-2014
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A strong climber, bold BASE jumper, future father and good friend, remembered.
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Ulvetanna: In the Jaws of the Wolf
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Between January 20 and February 3, a climbing team of five Norwegians and the British alpinist Andy Kirkpatrick climbed in capsule style for 27 pitches up the thrice-attempted South Ridge of Ulvetanna in Antarctica’s Queen Maud Land. Herein, Kirkpatrick tells their tale of success.
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Alaska
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South America
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Antarctica
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New Zealand
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Pakistan
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India
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Nepal
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China
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Alps | Dolomites | Pyrenees
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Norway
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