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Songwriter and videographer Evan Phillips tells the story of a Revelation Mountains first ascent–without any hype.

Down the Rabbit Hole on Mt. Huntington’s Idiot Peak

by Aaron Child

11 The Sharp End: A Wild of One’s Own

by Katie Ives

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.”

Scenes from the Alpinist Office on Deadline

by The Editors

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.

Soloist Jes Meiris on Going Up the Nose and Falling Down

by Shey Kiester

“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.”