Alpinist Magazine Issue 84 | Winter 2023 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF)

Alpinist Magazine Issue 84 | Winter 2023 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF)Cover: Patrick Lalonde peers through the narrow exit moves of Tuts Thumb (WI4+) in the Katahdin massifs North Basin, Baxter State Park, Maine. [Photo] Brent Doscher Features Mountain Profile: Katahdin Nestled into the woods of northern Maine, beyond the reaches of roads, Katahdin rises out of the 2,200 mile long chain of Appalachian Mountains. Its weathered cliffs of pink and grey granite have inspired painters, poets and climbers for centuries.

have shattered it to pieces

On Belay For years

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a few climbers—like Mugs Stump and Erhard Loretan—have ventured up big routes in this unearthly landscape

Weighing on Gardner's mind

Winter's Tale

Hucking meat and Bible verses

Alex Honnold looks beyond the momentary purity of ascent he reached on his free solo of Sendero Luminoso (5

and while many of those products were good

Baggage gets lost

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