I’m one of those guys who have a different pair of shoes for every situation and will debate my options to an embarrassing extent. Over a year ago, while searching for a good all-around pair of approach shoes, I tried a pair of Salewa Wildfires.
Six French climbers make the first traverse of the Seven Sisters in the Sierra du Fief, Wiencke Island, Antarctica over three days in late November 2014, encountering committing terrain and steep, technical snow and ice hard above the Southern Ocean.
Alpinist contributor Bob Craig passed away at age 90.
He’s legendary for his role in the 1953 K2 expedition and the attempt to rescue team member Art Gilkey. The following story was originally published in Alpinist 37.
After seven years work and 19 days spent on the side of El Cap, Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson have freed El Cap’s Dawn Wall (5.14d) in Yosemite Valley.
Longtime Yosemite climber, and mixed-medium artist Mike Dewey expresses his love for the walls and climbing community on canvas and stone.
Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold travel to Patagonia to find the limit of their capabilities, and “do the kind of stuff [they] see in Alpinist Magazine.”
In late December, Ian Parnell and Pete Harrison completed the new route graded X, 9, Wide Asleep, onsight in North Wales. Over two pitches, the team ascended poorly protected, insecure terrain–protected solely by cams and nuts–pulling off “by far the hardest thing I’ve been on,” said Parnell.
From El Chalten, Alpinist correspondent Rolo Garibotti relays what he calls, “one of the most harrowing ascents in Patagonian climbing history.”
Inspired during a trip to Wyoming’s Wind River Range the previous season, David Allfrey, Nik Berry and Mason Earle returned to the Winds this August to free an A3 route on Mt. Hooker. Kyle Berkompas filmed their project.
