[Photo] Giulio Malfer

Alexander Ruchkin

Posted on: July 1, 2006


Russian climber Alexander Ruchkin seeks out untouched rock from the Himalaya to the Arctic, yet the peaks of Central Asia remain to him a perpetually unknown country—and the home to which he always returns.

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