Fresh off deadline, the author of our latest Mountain Profile–the North Cascades’ Picket Range–Forest McBrian sat down to debrief and explain why, among other nuggets… Read More »An Interview with Alpinist Contributor Forest McBrian
Picket Range Mountain Profile writer Forest McBrian writes a short story about sharing his spiritual reconnection to the Pickets with his late stepmother.
Songwriter and videographer Evan Phillips tells the story of a Revelation Mountains first ascent–without any hype.
After months of working with writers to edit, revise and fact-check the stories that make up Issue 47 of our magazine, all that’s left for… Read More »Scenes from the Alpinist Office on Deadline
“I wanted to climb it solo in a push, without hauling or sleeping, and I knew that if I was successful I would break the… Read More »Soloist Jes Meiris on Going Up the Nose and Falling Down
Following years of quiet climbing, Alaska’s Revelation Mountains see their most active season on record.
Cory Richards, a regular Alpinist contributor, considers the realm of the uncomfortable along with the realities of modern alpinism.
Jerzy Porebski and artist Ewa Labaj explore the great alpinist’s life in a comic strip. For many, including Reinhold Messner, Buhl was, and always will… Read More »Hermann Buhl: A Hero Undiminished
Harvey Carter’s words become a catalyst for writer Chris Van Leuven’s quest to understand how climbing prepares us for the challenges of ordinary existence, the… Read More »The Illusion of Control
Fifty-five years ago, the famous Recompense at Cathedral Ledge was first climbed with wooden wedges. It was by the imagination and British boldness of this… Read More »The Life, Times and Scary Climbs of John Turner (1931-2014)
To look behind the layers of mythology that still gather around Mt. Everest is not merely a matter of pointing out differences in mountaineering styles.… Read More »The End of the Everest Myth
“[I]n ‘post’-colonial democracies where ethnic minorities carry the burden of insidious and vicious prejudices at every turn, Sherpas are fortunate. Everyone loves us, everyone trusts… Read More »Three Springs
