Alpinist Magazine Issue 51 - Autumn 2015 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF)

Alpinist Magazine Issue 51 - Autumn 2015 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF)Features Mountain Profile: The Aiguille du Dru Part II (19552015) "It seemed built to perpetuate our dreams"thus Guido Magnone described the Aiguille du Dru in The West Face. Ian Parnell relives the history of a peak poised between mountaineering fantasies and environmental realities. Royal Robbins, Claude Remy, Andy Parkin and Jrme Sullivan share dispatches from the past to the future. Going Home Dean Potter, Graham Hunt and Sean Leary were climbers

her drawings from expedition notebooks expand into paintings of vast mountain landscapes as seen from high above

to understand how and why this region of the Selkirk Mountains that’s bisected by Canada’s deadliest rail line became North America’s preeminent ski-mountaineering zone

BEERBOX: 2018 BEER GUIDE

Jess Graham balances fine art

wieners and relishing sloppy seconds

WISDOM: SARAH CARPENTER

THE MAGNUS OPUS

Sharp End In which our editor travels to California to meet the women who founded America's first monthly climbing magazine

Ryan Stuart excavates for turns

where she discovered that seeing mountains through a new lens could help restore her connection to the landscape

The Climbing Life Sylvain Jouty ponders Life

A Life More Interesting