![Marc-Andre Leclerc on a successful free ascent of El Capitan's Muir Wall (VI 5.13c 900m) with Brette Harrington and Alan Carney in 2015. [Photo] Bradford McArthur](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/leclerc-remembered-1-930x620.jpg)
Brette Harrington, Luka Lindic, Sonnie Trotter, Bernadette McDonald, Tom Livingstone and others recount the impressive climbing career and profound life of beloved Canadian alpinist Marc-Andre… Read More »Marc-Andre Leclerc Remembered
![Fred Beckey on the summit of Mt. Goode. [Photo] Douglas McCarty](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a-short-stretch-of-freds-road-1-930x620.jpg)
In this story from Alpinist 61, Douglas McCarty recalls his adventures on the road with Fred Beckey, which started in 1972 when McCarty and a… Read More »A Short Stretch of Fred’s Road
![Laura and Guy Waterman are pictured here on the Franconia Ridge in New England's Presidential Range during the mid-1980s, when they were very involved with trail work under the Appalachian Mountain Club's adopt-a-trail program. We and some of our trail work friends had recently placed those rocks at the head of Walker Ravine in an attempt to reinforce the drainage and stabilize the trail, she told Alpinist. [Photo] Waterman family collection](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/mountain-steward-1-930x620.jpg)
In this unabridged version of a Climbing Life story from Alpinist 61, Laura Waterman retraces the path and climbs that inspired her to become involved… Read More »On Becoming a Mountain Steward
![Ryan Johnson rigging a rappel on an October 2015 attempt on the north face of the Main Mendenhall Tower. Johnson completed this dream line with Marc-Andre Leclerc, but the pair lost their lives on the descent. [Photo] Clint Helander](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ryan-johnson-1-930x620.jpg)
Clint Helander remembers the life and prolific climbing career of his friend Ryan Johnson, who went missing and is presumed dead along with Marc-Andre Leclerc… Read More »Remembering Ryan Johnson
![Lopsang Tshering Sherpa recalls small perks from mountaineering work: I often came back with clothes that no one else had in Kathmandu. He drank so much tea on expeditions that he was called Tea Lopsang. Now, he grows tea in his village, where everyone calls him Chiya Baje (Grandpa Tea). [Photo] Kapil Bisht](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a61-local-hero-1-930x620.jpg)
In this Local Hero story from the latest issue, Alpinist 61, Kapil Bisht interviews Lopsang Tshering Sherpa, who began his storied career as an expedition… Read More »Local Hero: Lopsang Tshering Sherpa
![The author on the approach to Washington Column with Half Dome in the background, 2015. [Photo] Alex McKiernan collection](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a60-tcl-the-prow-1-930x620.jpg)
Alex McKiernan suffered a spinal cord injury from a car crash in 2014 and he has slowly regained some use of his legs since then.… Read More »The Prow
![Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka by Bernadette McDonald. Rocky Mountain Books, 2017. 326 pages. Hardcover, $32. [Image] Courtesy Rocky Mountain Books](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/art-of-freedom-1-930x620.jpg)
“‘Art of Freedom,’ is a brilliant work of insight, not only into the life of the great alpinist, but also about the questions that compel… Read More »Glimpses of Higher Worlds: Bernadette McDonald’s ‘Art of Freedom’
![[Photo] Paul Zizka](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a60-letter-to-editor-1-923x620.jpg)
In this letter to the editor from Alpinist 60, Christopher Elliott describes the solar eclipse that occurred on August 21, 2017, and the fleeting “moment… Read More »Totality from a Mountaintop
![[Illustration] Andreas Schmidt](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a59-full-value-1-930x620.jpg)
In 1969, a young David Roberts buzzes the doorbell at the apartment of W. H. Auden, his literary hero, in hopes of inspiring the aging… Read More »Auden in the Brooks Range
![Hugues Beauzile and Lucien Lulu Berardini climbing at the crag they helped develop in Claret, France. [Photo] Pascal Tournaire](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/hugues-beauzile-1-930x620.jpg)
In this feature from Alpinist 60, James Edward Mills recounts the story of Hugues Beauzile, the son of a Haitian immigrant who became one of… Read More »The Force of the Soul: Hugues Beauzile
![[Illustration] Andreas Schmidt](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a60-full-value-1-930x607.jpg)
In this Full Value story from Alpinist 60, David Stevenson gets caught in a storm returning from a hut trip in Alaska and suffers a… Read More »The Raven at the Door
![Zach Harrison on the first free ascent of the Southeast Face (III 5.11+ R, 520') of Zoroaster Temple, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. [Photo] Blake McCord](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a60-zoroaster-1-905x620.jpg)
In this On Belay story that first appeared in Alpinist 60, Jeff Snyder writes of completing a first free ascent of the Southeast Face of… Read More »Still Distant Temple: Zoroaster, Grand Canyon
