![Kim Schmitz at the high camp on the first ascent of Gaurishankar (7181m), Nepal, 1979. [Photo] John Roskelley](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kim-schmitz-remembered-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
![Marc-Andre Leclerc hauls a pack up a pitch on The Winter Link-Up route during his solo ascent of Torre Egger [Photo] Marc-Andre Leclerc](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/leclerc-2.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
![The Mammut Wall Rider Helmet. [Photo] Drew Thayer](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/mammut-wall-rider-helmet-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
Mammut Wall Rider Helmet Review
“Smaller rocks inevitably rained down. Just as the barrage ceased, a small rock whacked me in the head…. On the hard shell of the helmet, where the rock had hit, was a small ding. No cracks, no mess, just one clean dimple.” Drew Thayer reviews the Mammut Wall Rider Helmet.
![Field and Zimmerman gaze at Allincapac (5780) from the summit of Pico Carol. [Photo] Nathan Heald](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/new-routes-in-perus-carabaya-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
![Madaleine Sorkin leads a pitch on her September 7 redpoint of The Honeymoon is over (V 5.13c) on the Diamond of Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Sorkin became the first woman and fifth person to send the route, which sits entirely above 13,000 feet and is one of the hardest lines in the world at that altitude. [Photo] Henna Taylor](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/madaleine-sorkin-becomes-first-woman-to-send-th.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
![The author climbing Hidden Gully (WI3-4, 650'), Smugglers' Notch, VT in early-season. [Photo] Sam Fox Knapp](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/arcteryx-acrux-ar-mountaineering-boots-in-use-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
Light, Low Profile and Hard to Break In: Arc’teryx Acrux AR Mountaineering Boots
Chris Van Leuven reviews the Arc’teryx Acrux AR Mountaineering Boots, crafted to be the “lowest volume weatherproof double boot ever made,” the company says.
![Left: Scott Adamson at the base of pitch 3 during the first ascent of The One Who Knocks WI6 M5 R/X, Reid's Peak, Uintas, Utah. Right: Kyle Dempster at the Superbowl Sunday BBQ at the top of Pitch 2 on the Great White Icicle, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah. [Photos] Nathan Smith](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/scott-adamson-kyle-dempster.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
Adamson, Dempster Remembered for Love, Tenacity
Kyle Dempster and Scott Adamson were at home in wild and remote mountains. But their sense of passion and commitment spread beyond the bold routes they climbed to the people with whom they shared their lives. On Alpinist.com, Derek Franz writes about the disappearance of the two men on the north face of the Ogre II. Friends of the two climbers remember their tenacity and love.
![Kyle Dempster on a rainy day in Salt Lake City. [Photo] Nathan Smith](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kyle-dempster-remembering.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
In Memory of Kyle Dempster
On September 3, 2016, the search for Kyle Dempster and Scott Adamson, missing on the Ogre II in Pakistan, was called off. Here, a friend and climbing partner Scott Robertson writes a tribute to Kyle. We will be working on more stories about Kyle and Scott in the weeks ahead.