![Stories of Ice: Adventure, Commerce and Creativity on Canada's Glaciers by Lynn Martel. Rocky Mountain Books, 2020. 336 pages. Hardcover, $40 (CAN). [Image] Courtesy Rocky Mountain Books](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/book-stories-of-ice-1-930x620.jpg)
Sarah Boon reviews Lynn Martel’s latest book, “Stories of Ice: Adventure, Commerce and Creativity on Canada’s Glaciers,” which was published earlier this year. Boon describes… Read More »Glaciers Abound in Lynn Martel’s new book, “Stories of Ice”
![Newlyweds Luka Lindic and Ines Papert on their new route Wolke 7 (aka Cloud 9: 5.13b, 380m), on the Hinteres Feuerhorndl, Reiteralm, Austria. [Photo] Klaus Fengler](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/wolke-7-1-930x620.jpg)
After newlyweds Luka Lindic and Ines Papert canceled their Alaska expedition this past summer because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, they reconsidered what adventures they… Read More »Luka Lindic and Ines Papert find big new routes close to home in Austria
![The smooth trigger action and the sticky-rubber like traction of the soft alloy lobes are just two components that make the Alien Revolution a great choice for mountain missions. Dave Allfrey and Luke Holloway plug and play a few ridges south of Mt. Whitney (Tumanguya), California. [Photo] Tad McCrea](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/fixe-alien-revo-cams-1-1-930x620.jpg)
Tad McCrea used the Fixe Ultralight Alien Revolution cams on 20 big routes in the Sierra Nevada Range this past summer and he was very… Read More »Fixe Ultralight Alien Revolution cams: Otherworldly friends to have on your rack
![[Illustration] Andreas Schmidt](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/xa72-full-value-1-930x620.jpg.pagespeed.ic.zOgcEhf20t.jpg)
In 1990 alpinist Barry Blanchard found himself trapped in a blizzard high on Yexyexescen (Mt. Robson), the tallest peak in the Canadian Rockies–with eleven other… Read More »And Then We Were Twelve
![The author wearing the Ombraz Classic sunglasses on a hike last spring. [Photo] Mandi Franz](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/xombraz-sunglasses-1-1-930x620.jpg.pagespeed.ic.HLQSAdzUxf.jpg)
Alpinist Digital Editor Derek Franz has been wearing the unusual “armless” Ombraz Sunglasses since last spring. Instead of the typical rigid arms that are on… Read More »Ombraz Sunglasses: “Armless” and highly functional
![[Photo] Satellite image courtesy of NASA](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a72-tool-users-weather-forecasts-1-930x620.jpg)
In this Tool Users story from Alpinist 72–which is now available on newsstands and in our online store–Brandon Blackburn investigates one of the most paradigm-shifting… Read More »Tool Users: Modern Weather Forecasts
![George Lowe, during the 1977 first ascent of the Lowe-Kennedy Route on the north face of Mt. Hunter (Begguya, 14,573'), Alaska Range. On an earlier attempt, Jeff Lowe fell near the sun-shadow line. [Photo] Michael Kennedy](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a72-on-belay-falling-into-place-1-930x620.jpg)
In this On Belay story from Alpinist 72–which is now on newsstands and in our online store–a young Michael Kennedy sets out in 1977 with… Read More »Falling into Place
![Derek Franz stays relaxed wearing the Black Diamond Vision MIPS helmet while onsighting Rock Candy (5.12a), a thin slippery route on Independence Pass, Colorado. [Photo] Elizabeth Riley](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/black-diamond-vision-mips-helmet-1-1-930x620.jpeg)
Alpinist Digital Editor Derek Franz has been wearing the Black Diamond Vision MIPS helmet on many climbs, from long multipitch routes in the Black Canyon… Read More »Black Diamond Vision MIPS Helmet: Head protection that’s as light and effective as ever
![Lauren Shartell refines moves on the Lightning (M12+/M13-) in the Rigid Designator Amphitheatre, Vail, Colorado, the day before she redpointed the route on November 8. She's now the second US woman to send the climb as well as the grade of M13-, but she suggested downgrading the route to M12+. [Photo] Courtesy of Kyle Barker](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/xlauren-shartell-on-the-lightning-1-853x620.jpg.pagespeed.ic.RXeeltpjJY.jpg)
Lauren Shartell sent the Lightning in Vail’s Rigid Designator Amphitheatre on November 8. In doing so, she became the second US woman to climb the… Read More »Lauren Shartell becomes the second US woman to send the Lightning
After Alpinist 72 went to press, we found that reproductions we had printed of historical images from a 1970s-era magazine appeared to contain some offensive… Read More »An apology from Alpinist
![Emily Harrington leading the Golden Desert pitch (5.13a) near the top of El Capitan. [Photo] Jon Glassberg, Louder Than 11](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/emily-harrington-golden-gate-1-930x620.jpg)
Late on November 4, Emily Harrington climbed over the lip of El Capitan (Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La) in the dark; she’d free climbed all 41 pitches of Golden… Read More »Emily Harrington becomes first woman to send El Capitan’s Golden Gate in a day
![Priti and Jeff Wright atop K6 Central (7100m). [Photo] Priti and Jeff Wright collection](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/k6-central-first-ascent-1-930x620.jpg)
Early last month, a Jeff and Priti Wright, a husband-wife team from Seattle, Washington, completed the third ascent of K6 West (7040m) and the first… Read More »Priti and Jeff Wright complete the first ascent of K6 Central (7100m)
