![Tears of the Dragon (Russian Grade 6B, A3 M5, 1150m) marks the second ascent of the Great Wall (5120m) via the northeast face. [Photo] Team archive](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/great-wall-route-930x620.jpg)
![Kim Schmitz at the high camp on the first ascent of Gaurishankar (7181m), Nepal, 1979. [Photo] John Roskelley](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kim-schmitz-remembered-1-930x620.jpg)
![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://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/leclerc-2-930x620.jpg)
![Field and Zimmerman gaze at Allincapac (5780) from the summit of Pico Carol. [Photo] Nathan Heald](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/new-routes-in-perus-carabaya-1-930x620.jpg)
![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://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/madaleine-sorkin-becomes-first-woman-to-send-th-930x620.jpg)
![Ogre II (6980m) above the Choktoi Glacier in Pakistan. [Photo] Courtesy of Kyle Dempster](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ogre-2-1-930x620.jpg)
![Adam Stack on the hike in to the base of Mt. Hooker (12,504'). [Photo] Tommy Caldwell](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/adam-hiking-to-base-930x620.jpg)
Speed, age barriers broken on Tetons’ Grand Traverse
On August 16, Nick Elson set a new speed record for the Grand Traverse in Wyoming’s Teton Range: 6 hours, 30 minutes, 49 seconds. Earlier this month, Lee Sheftel may have become the oldest to complete the traverse.
Chris Van Leuven’s “Going Home” Selected for The Best American Sports Writing 2016
Chris Van Leuven’s story “Going Home,” which first appeared on the cover of Alpinist 51, has been selected for inclusion in this year’s The Best American Sports Writing anthology.