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Mountain Reconnaissance with John Scurlock
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John Scurlock talks about climbing, aviation, and what the two respective pursuits can learn from each other…
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Introducing the Alpinist Film Festival Tour
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Alpinist’s unique party has become too big for such a small town like Jackson to handle…
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Short Pitches Writing Contest Winner
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In April, Alpinist launched its first online writing contest, Short Pitches. After receiving more than fifty entries, we had a tough job to do: pick one.
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Inspirations, Part VII: Glen Denny
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During the long, cold bivouacs, quotes from Magnone’s book kept coming back to me…
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Memories of George Gardner
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This summer the climbing community lost a great friend, George Gardner.
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The Future of Alpinist
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Alpinist was founded in 2002 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Twenty-five issues, four film festivals and three websites later, we’re still psyched, and we’re still growing.
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Alpinist Celebrates El Capitan
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For Issue 25’s profile of El Capitan, we worked with the finest photographers ever to grace the Valley. Those historically significant images we couldn’t fit between the covers you’ll find here.
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David Pickford: A Sea Cliff Photo Essay
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David Pickford shares his saltiest shots from the sea cliffs of the United Kingdom to preview Issue 25.
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The Torre Traverse at Last
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Italian climbing legend Ermanno Salvaterra reflects on the Torre Traverse–what most consider the finest enchainment in Patagonian history.
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Exotic Hampi: Video and Interview
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Follow climber Liv Sansoz to Hampi, India, where among palm trees, rice fields and ancient temples, she experiences some of the world’s greatest bouldering. Still hungry? Professional videographer Evrard Wendenbaum steps in to answer a few questions about filming the trip.
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The Boys of Everest
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An excerpt from Clint Willis’s book, The Boys of Everest–a semi-historical ride through the life of Sir Chris Bonington and the ragtag group of Brits who followed him to the world’s greatest peaks.
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Solo, Part V: Steph Davis
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Steph Davis is one of the world’s most accomplished female free soloists. She explains, in this Alpinist.com Solo Series exclusive, how she replaces fear with relaxed confidence to send exposed routes without a lifeline.
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Solo, Part IV: Alexander Huber
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What does it take to free solo 500 meters of 5.12? That’s a question only the likes of Alex Huber can answer–and here he does in this Alpinist.com Solo Series exclusive.
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Solo, Part III: Guy Lacelle
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After exploring the minds of rock master Alex Honnold and big wall diva Silvia Vidal, the Solo Series delves into the world of ice climbing with Guy Lacelle.
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Solo, Part II: Silvia Vidal
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Last week, Alex Honnold opened the Solo Series with his take on free soloing. This week, Silvia Vidal shares her thoughts on aid soloing big walls.
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Solo, Part I: Alex Honnold
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Alex Honnold kicks off the Weekly Feature Solo Series with insight on his vertically defined world.
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Aconcagua Speed Riding: Video and Interview
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Francois Bon takes a three-minute trip down the south face of Aconcagua, then lives to tell about it.
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Falling: Ines Papert
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Ines Papert discovers that a life-changing moment can assist in a search for the soul.
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Mountain Athlete: Weight Training for Climbing
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Where you pay to hurt. An honest look at one man’s weight-driven, vomit-inducing, climbing-centric athletic program.
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Moroccan Honeymoon: A Photo Essay
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Climbing is what defines each of our lives, and our life together. Adam and I met climbing. Our first date was climbing. Our first kiss was climbing. So, a climbing trip–but not just any climbing trip–was the only way we conceived of spending our honeymoon.
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Colin Haley: Young Alpinist on Fire
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At 11 am on January 24, Rolando Garibotti and Colin Haley stood on the summit of Cerro Torre after linking all four of the Torre Group’s iconic spires in a single, alpine style traverse…After they’d completed the traverse, for many people, the story that emerged was less of a retrospective into the project than it was a look toward the future.
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The Journey
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I’m believer in positive thinking. But in August I found myself wondering about the disconnect between believing in the bright side and giving it lip service. On a trip to the Lotus Flower Tower in Canada’s Cirque of the Unclimbables, Ian Altman and his multiple sclerosis showed me how unyielding persistence can bridge this gap.
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Nakamura: Steward of Unclimbed Peaks
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With the advent of GIS, satellite images and other advanced cartographic applications, it seems the world is growing smaller by the minute. But long-time Alpinist contributor Tamotsu Nakamura–though he began his explorations after the Golden Age of Mountaineering ended–begs to differ.
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Remembering Cesarino Fava
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Alpinist remembers Cesarino Fava, who died on April 22, 2008 in Male, Italy. Share your thoughts and photos of Fava, whose greatest love were the peaks of Argentine and Chilean Patagonia.
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Inspirations, Part VI: Marko Prezelj
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Marko Prezelj shares his inspiration: Pot (The Way). “My ‘way’ has changed over time, but Zaplotnik’s foundations remain and continue to inspire.”
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Inspirations, Part V: The Wisdom of Exploration
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Damien Gildea shares his inspirations. “Repeats were given a line or two at most. Details were scarce, photos grainy—but how much help do you want? That approach, including only the essential and knowing what to leave out, reflected one of the basic tenets of alpinism. And all without the narrow-minded, style-as-dogma hectoring we get now from wannabe alpine prophets.”
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130 Kilometers an Hour in the Wrong Lane
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Smuggling climbing hardware onto planes, destroying rental cars, and climbing excellent limestone routes–the second part of an adventure series on Spain by photographer and writer Traveler Taj Terpening.
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Inspirations, Part IV: High Conquest
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Royal Robbins shares his inspiration: High Conquest. “It’s basically a history of mountaineering, but its most salient point is that the ‘high conquest’ of the title is not truly getting to the top of the highest peaks; it’s the conquest of those weak and timid parts of ourselves we don’t want running the show.”
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South Georgia: A Photo Essay
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Follow French alpinists through poor weather, unexpected obstacles, rough seas and defensive sea lion colonies on their crossing of South Georgia in the southern Atlantic.
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Chile: The Crusade for Virgin Rock
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“Long periods of high pressure, steep granite, moderate glaciers, ‘short’ approaches from base camp and 500-meter virgin walls seemed the norm in Brujo del Torres. The more research we did, the more we convinced ourselves we had found El Dorado…”
