In late January the Vermont ice climbing community gathers for its social event of the year, the Smugglers' Notch Ice Bash, organized by Sunrise Adventure Sports. The Alpinist staff teamed up with our neighbors at Climberism to put together this video of the 2012 Smuggs' Ice Bash. (Props to Ray Kania for editing this on short notice.) Between two nights of free beer, a dry tooling competition, one day of climbing hard and another day spent sharing the joy of ice with new friends who had never climbed before, we had an absolutely stellar time. See you next January at the Smuggs' Ice Bash!

Jon Griffith and Ueli Steck make the first free and one day winter ascent of the Lesueur Route on Les Drus.

"I met Alf, the first day I was in the Creek on a recent road trip. He was kicking it in his camper out in the desert by himself. and it just struck me as an extremely intriguing story. I mean here is a guy who actively decided to live out in the desert as much as he can. I wanted to explore why that is, and what it is that he loves so much about that place."

Doug Shepherd and Aaron Mulkey get their passports pulled by the Grand Central Couloir in Canada and then head back to the hills in search of uncharted terrain with Rusty Willis.

In June 2010, Russian climbers Sergey Dashkevich and Mikhail Borich climbed the southwest wall of Mount Erydag's southwest summit.

Hyalite Canyon and frozen water star in the video trailer for the fifteenth annual Bozeman Ice Fest.

Pat Wolfe reenacts the first ascent of Hyalite's Genesis II.

This is a video of our two week climbing expedition into the remote Neacola Mountains of Alaska.

"When are we going to have two #6 camalots out here again?"

Footage from Ben Ditto, Nicolas Favresse, Olivier Favresse and Sean Villanueva's Piolet d'Or-winning adventure on the big walls and fjords of Greenland.