![The author wears the VOORMI River Run Hoodie while climbing Animal Magnetism (5.11) in Boulder Canyon, Colorado. [Photo] Luis Felipe Ossa Rodriguez (aka Lucho Salsa)](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/river-run-hoodie-1-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
VOORMI River Run Hoodie: A featherweight top for all seasons
The VOORMI River Run Hoodie keeps Chris Van Leuven comfy in all kinds of conditions, from rainy trails and toothy offwidths to social scenes. He awards it five stars.
![[Photo Bryce Brown]](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/acp-recap-1.jpg?resize=640%2C620&ssl=1)
#alpinistcommunityproject 2016
This week, we’re sharing an assortment of social media posts from the Alpinist Community Project in 2016. In this collection we’re resharing photos from Bryce Brown, James Rushforth, Michael Kennedy, Abhijeet Singh, Jeremy Joseph, Jenny Abegg and Forest Woodward, Tamotsu Nakamura and Caroline Treadway.
The Adventure Gap and Narratives of Inclusion: James Edward Mills talks about why the face of outdoor adventure must change
Brad Rassler interviews author James Edward Mills about current events and the disparity of opportunities for minorities to try outdoor activities like climbing.
![[Photo] Drew Thayer](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/valandre-sleeping-bag-2-1.jpg?resize=813%2C527&ssl=1)
Valandre Shocking Blue Neo Sleeping Bag: High-performance and complicated
Drew Thayer describes the Valandre Shocking Blue Neo Sleeping Bag as “the Cadillac” of cold-weather sleeping bags. But all the added features increase the weight and the price compared to other cold-weather bags. Four stars.
![Columbia Icefield, Alberta. [Photo] Manasseh Franklin](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/poetry-feature-experiencing-ice-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
Poetry Feature: Experiencing Ice
In this poetry feature, writer and adventurer Manasseh Franklin shares work from Experiencing Ice, a series of images and poems about glaciers and “vastness to ponder.”
![Base camp on the frozen Nipissis River below the M51 cliff, in Nitassinan, the Innu name for this land that overlaps with northeastern Quebec. [Photo] Maarten van Haeren](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/the-country-of-winter-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
The Country of Winter: Nitassinan, Quebec
Pete Takeda ventures into some of the vast realms of ice, and the countries within countries of Nitassinan and northeastern Quebec.
Beyond the Guide: White Mountains, New Hampshire
For years, Alan Cattabriga has roamed the White Mountains of New Hampshire, exploring the spaces between the contour lines of maps and creating long, arabesque-like enchainments of classic ice routes. Herein, a tale from one of the East Coast’s most imaginative wanderers.
![The author said that the CiloGear 30:30 backpack is basically an improved version of the CiloGear 45-liter pack pictured here in Patagonia in 2012, loaded with enough gear to go alpine style on Mate, Porro y Todo lo Demas (6c [5.11b], 900m) on the North Pillar of Fitz Roy (3375m), which looms in the background. Huckaby writes, Troutman aka 'Coleman Blakeslee' and myself climbed up the North Pillar to the summit and descended down the Franco-Argentine route on the other side of Fitz. [Photo] Josh Huckaby](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/cilogear3030-1-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
The CiloGear 30:30 backpack gets it done on alpine missions
Yosemite Search and Rescue member Josh Huckaby puts the CiloGear 30:30 backpack to the test and is stoked with the product. He plans to use it in Patagonia this January. Five stars!
![Shelika (6045m), south face, northeast of Jindong. [Photo] Tom Nakamura](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/hidden-mountains-of-tibet-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
Nakamura unveils hidden mountains of southern Tibet
Eighty-two-year-old Japanese mountaineer Tamotsu “Tom” Nakamura has been exploring and documenting the seldom-visited regions of Tibet for the last 25 years. In this feature he shares photographs of southern Tibet’s “hidden” mountains.
![From Conrad Anker's The City and The Blade in Alpinist 38. Mugs Stump on the Spanish Pillar of Meru North (6450m) in 1988. [Photo] Steve Quinlan](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/mugs-stump-file-photo.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
And the 2017 Mugs Stump Winners Are…
The 2017 Mugs Stump recipients aim to tackle: the East Face of Golgotha (Alaska); the West Face of Xanadu (Alaska); the North Face of Rungofarka and a prominent rock buttress on the nearby Northwest Face of Peak 5780 (India); the North Face of Barnaj II (India); and the world’s second highest unclimbed peak, Mucho Chhish (Pakistan).