![Kei Taniguchi training on Mt. Hotaka (3190m), Japan, December 2014. [Photo] Junji Wada](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/kei-taniguchi-1-930x620.jpg)
In 2009 Japanese alpinist Kei Taniguchi became the first woman to receive a Piolet d’Or for her first ascent of the Southeast Face of Kamet… Read More »Pandora’s Box: The Brief, Brilliant Life of Kei Taniguchi
![Paragot receiving the Piolets d'Or Lifetime Achievement (aka Walter Bonatti) Award in 2012. Rossana Podesta, Bonatti's partner of 30 years, is on the right. [Photo] Courtesy of Pascal Tournaire](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/robert-paragot-1-930x620.jpg)
Robert Paragot, a highly influential alpinist and Fontainebleau boulderer, passed away at his home near Paris on October 24 at age 92. French climbing journalist… Read More »Robert Paragot (1927-2019): An Old Man’s Lesson
![Denali (20,310') in the Alaska Range. [Photo] Bradford Washburn Collection, Museum of Science](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a67-wired-1-930x620.jpg)
In 1913 Walter Harper, an Irish-Athabascan climber, became the first person to stand on the summit of Denali, soon joined by teammates Harry Karstens, Robert… Read More »Denali, A Universe
![The author's father, Ricardo Cholo, in Cogua, Colombia, January 2018. [Photo] Ana Beatriz Cholo collection](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a67-tcl-the-unclimbed-1-930x620.jpg)
In this story from The Climbing Life section of Alpinist 67, which is now available on newsstands and in our online store, Ana Beatriz Cholo… Read More »The Unclimbed
![[Cover] Turn Around Time: A Walking Poem for the Pacific Northwest. David Guterson. Illustrations by Justin Gibbens. Mountaineers Books. Hardcover, 144 Pages. $21.95.](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/turn-around-time-1-930x620.jpg)
Sarah Boon reports that David Guterson’s new book Turn Around Time applies the mountaineering concept as “a metaphor for life.” The book-length series of prose… Read More »David Guterson’s book “Turn Around Time” applies mountaineering themes to youth, aging
Read the essays from our Mountain Profile about Mt. Hubbard, Mt. Alverstone and Mt. Kennedy in the St. Elias Range of Alaska and Canada.
![The Pugilist at Rest (5.10 A3 M5) follows the long center rib in the middle of the photo. The Wilford Couloir is the gully just to the left. [Photo] Mark Wilford](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/pugilist-1-930x620.jpg)
In this Mountain Profile essay from Alpinist 67, which is now available on newsstands and in our online store, Barry Blanchard relives a couple of… Read More »1998: The Pugilist at Rest
![Jack Tackle on Pitch 11 of A Pair of Jacks/Arctic Discipline, Mt. Kennedy. [Photo] Jack Roberts](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/arctic-discipline-1-930x620.jpg)
In this Mountain Profile essay from Alpinist 67, which is now available on newsstands and in our online store, Jack Tackle writes about his time… Read More »1996: The Wall of Arctic Discipline
![Wendy Teichmann, Andrea Rankin, Gertrude Smith and Helen Butling assemble at camp as they prepare for an attempt on the unclimbed Mt. Saskatchewan in 1967. [Photo] Courtesy Andrea Rankin](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/mt-saskatchewan-1-930x620.jpg)
In this Mountain Profile essay from Alpinist 67, which is now available on newsstands and in our online store, Andrea Rankin recounts the women’s expedition… Read More »1967: Summer on Mt. Saskatchewan
![The north buttress of Mt. Kennedy as seen during the 1935 National Geographic Society Yukon Expedition. At the time, Bob Bates wrote that he hoped the peak would be called Mt. Washburn. It was known as East Hubbard until it was renamed for President Kennedy in 1965. In his years as director of the Boston Museum of Science, Washburn hung an enlarged version of this photograph on his office wall. [Photo] Bradford Washburn, Bradford Washburn collection, Museum of Science](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a67-mpessay-rivers-flow-back-1-930x620.jpg)
In this Mountain Profile essay from Alpinist 67, which is now available on newsstands and in our online store, Anna Chiburis documents some of the… Read More »1972: Rivers that Flow Back to Mountains
![The Lines Between. Watercolor on paper. Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia. [Artwork] Claire Giordano](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/giordano-1-930x620.jpg)
In this feature from Alpinist 67, which is now available on newsstands and in our online store, Claire Giordano shares stories and paintings that depict… Read More »The Shadow’s Edge
![This photograph of the Himalaya was taken from the International Space Station in 2004. Visible from left to right are: Makalu, Chomolungma (Everest), Lhotse and Cho Oyu. [Photo] Courtesy of NASA, Wikimedia](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/himalaya-space-station-930x620.jpg)
Alpinist Managing Editor Paula Wright interviewed Pasang Yangjee Sherpa for the Alpinist Podcast in 2017 and followed up with her again this month. Born in… Read More »Human Dimensions of Climate Change in the Himalaya: An interview with anthropologist Pasang Yangjee Sherpa
