![Bluemlisalp traverse above Kandersteg, Bernese Alps. [Photo] Abacus Mountain Guides](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/xmammut-belay-chain-1-1-930x620.jpg.pagespeed.ic.iCbpqDnxGr.jpg)
Climber and guidebook author Stewart M. Green reviews the Mammut Belay Chain: “Unlike the personal anchor systems made by Metolius, Sterling and Black Diamond that… Read More »Mammut Belay Chain: Strong Personal Tether for Anchoring
![An 1805 map of the Yellowstone River, which historian James P. Ronda writes, was based off drawings or information from the Mandan chief Sheheke and copied by William Clark, who noted that it led "as far as the high mountains." [Photo] Beinecke Library, Yale University](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/typologies-of-silence-930x620.jpg)
In “Typologies of Silence,” the Sharp End article for Alpinist 55, Editor-in-chief Katie Ives discusses some of the muted stories in accounts of early American… Read More »Typologies of Silence
For our Climbing Life department in Alpinist 55, high school student Kai Lightner writes about his first multipitch traditional climb on Stone Mountain, with Yosemite… Read More »Between the Earth and the Sky
![Bluemlisalp traverse above Kandersteg, Bernese Alps. [Photo] Abacus Mountain Guides](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/bluemlisalp-traverse-930x620.jpg)
“Tell me again about being single-minded, / about couloirs bulging with fat blue ice / and dawn arriving high in the Alps; / how a… Read More »Poetry Feature: Three Poems by David Wilson
“There is glacial power in language, in naming things. I am here because my mother gave me a vocabulary for motion,” poet Devi Lockwood writes… Read More »Home: an Index
![Tat removed from Recompense (5.9) at Cathedral Ledge, NH by the author in 2011. [Photo] Mike Lewis](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/xtrango-piranha-knife-mountain-standards-1-1-930x620.jpg.pagespeed.ic.bX4C-L5TJO.jpg)
As a guide, I’m often asked what I carry on my harness. In addition to standard climbing hardware, plus prussic cords, a Tibloc, and a… Read More »Trango Piranha Knife: Sharp, Low Profile and Opens Bottles
![South Face of Taulliraju with the West Ridge on the Left. [Photo] Daniel Jol](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/new-zealand-south-face-of-taulliraju-930x620.jpg)
![The Moai Face [Photo] Keita Kurakami](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/xthe-moai-face-by-keita-kurakami-930x620.jpg.pagespeed.ic.cKy5PrBh5O.jpg)
![The foreshortened line of the East Face Rock Rib (5.10b M5 AI5), Taulliraju, as seen on the first ascensionists' approach. [Photo] Steve Skelton](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/taulliraju-topo-930x620.jpg)
