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Left: Scott Adamson at the base of pitch 3 during the first ascent of The One Who Knocks WI6 M5 R/X, Reid's Peak, Uintas, Utah. Right: Kyle Dempster at the Superbowl Sunday BBQ at the top of Pitch 2 on the Great White Icicle, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah. [Photos] Nathan Smith

Adamson, Dempster Remembered for Love, Tenacity

by Derek Franz

Kyle Dempster and Scott Adamson were at home in wild and remote mountains. But their sense of passion and commitment spread beyond the bold routes… Read More »Adamson, Dempster Remembered for Love, Tenacity

Kyle Dempster on a rainy day in Salt Lake City. [Photo] Nathan Smith

In Memory of Kyle Dempster

by Scott Robertson

On September 3, 2016, the search for Kyle Dempster and Scott Adamson, missing on the Ogre II in Pakistan, was called off. Here, a friend… Read More »In Memory of Kyle Dempster

Cirque of the Towers. [Photo] Doug Kofsky

Wind River Universe

by Dick Dorworth

Dick Dorworth reflects on the changes that the last forty-five years have brought to the Wind River Range: “On a clear day, the surface of… Read More »Wind River Universe

Ellingwood Peak (13,052'), the most prominent in the photo, with Notch Pinnacle (12,720'+) to the immediate left and Not Notch Pinnacle (12,760'+) farther left. [Photo] Joe Kelsey

Last Unclimbed Wind River

by Joe Kelsey

Eminent chronicler of the Wind River Mountains Joe Kelsey searches for the “last Unclimbed Wind River” peak–a quest inspired by an episode with his climbing… Read More »Last Unclimbed Wind River

Mitchell Peak (12,482'). [Photo] David Salisbury

My Big Scary First Ascent

by Sibylle Hechtel

Before she and Bev Johnson made the first female ascent of El Capitan, Sibylle Hechtel lead her first unclimbed big wall in the Wind Rivers:… Read More »My Big Scary First Ascent

Bill Lindberg on Tower I Gully (IV AI 3+, 1,000'), Mt. Helen (13,620'). [Photo] Raymond G. Jacquot

Tower I Ice Couloir, Mt. Helen

by Raymond G. Jacquot

Bill Lindberg and I are several pitches up a narrow couloir on the north side of Mt. Helen. A thick, even ribbon of white divides… Read More »Tower I Ice Couloir, Mt. Helen

Kyle Dempster, Hayden Kennedy, Jeff Lowe and Lowe's granddaughter. In 2013 Dempster and Kennedy, along with the late Justin Griffin, established a variation to the North Tower Crack, which they called the Lowe-Spark (IV 5.13 A0, 1,200'). Here Lowe holds one of the pitons that he'd placed in 1969 and that the 2013 ascent team recovered from the original route. [Photo] Kyle Dempster.

Sticking Needles in the Haystack

by Jeff Lowe

In 1969, at the age of 18, Jeff Lowe climbs “like a light-footed wolf” on Haystack Mountain.

Sundance Pinnacle (11,054'). [Photo] Steph Abegg.

Extra Left Klettershoe

by Doug Robinson

After climbing classics every day,” Doug Robinson recalls, “it was easy to assume that the great lines had all been snatched up. Our steps turned… Read More »Extra Left Klettershoe

Charlie Raymond on the first ascent of the North Face of Mt. Hooker [Photo] Royal Robbins Collection

Wyoming’s Range of Light

by Royal Robbins

Royal Robbins recounts a sojourn to the Winds in 1964: “Two things that you don’t usually find in the Sierra, but that you can expect… Read More »Wyoming’s Range of Light

Wyoming's Range of Light - By Royal Robbins

Alpinist 55 Mountain Profile Essays | Wind River Range

by Alpinist Staff

Read all seven essays by Royal Robbins, Doug Robinson, Jeff Lowe, Raymond G. Jacquot, Sibylle Hechtel, Joe Kelsey and Dick Dorworth from the Mountain Profile… Read More »Alpinist 55 Mountain Profile Essays | Wind River Range

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

Typologies of Silence

by Katie Ives

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

Between the Earth and the Sky

by Kai Lightner

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