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Posted March 16, 2017
In this Tool Users story from Alpinist 57, Paula Wright shines a light on the evolution of the headlamp. Since some climbers were still carrying flashlights in their mouths as late as the early 1970s, it seems that we have only recently emerged into a more illuminated age.
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Posted March 15, 2017
"Literary mountain writing may now be giving way to the selfie," Stephen Slemon writes in this essay. "But this shift towards the visual media may be opening new ground for the genre of mountaineering literature to change." Slemon explores climbing's ties to the written word and how the form of climbing narratives is evolving.
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Posted March 9, 2017
In this Full Value story from Alpinist 56 Sibylle Hechtel recounts a pivotal moment in her climbing career—her first first-ascent, in Canada's Bugaboos, 1973. She went on to become famous for the first all-female ascent of El Capitan with Beverly Johnson later that year, but her experience in the Bugs taught her "how to get up and back down" in the mountains.
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Posted March 8, 2017
In this On Belay article from Alpinist 57, Anna Pfaff describes her adventures as she becomes "unattached" from maps, expectations and conventions and learns to find her own way into some of the unknown realms beyond.
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Posted March 7, 2017
In this excerpt from Alpinist 57 Mailee Hung explores artwork by Richard T. Walker that "casts unease on traditional aspirations" and helps us consider "how to describe the aesthetic experience of climbing beyond this inherited legacy" of alpinists as conquerors.
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Posted March 3, 2017
During the 1930s, one woman joined the race to climb the feared north faces of the Alps, venturing into terrain then believed to be reserved for only the boldest (and some claimed the most reckless) men. In this Local Hero from Alpinist 57, Sallie Greenwood looks back on the extraordinary, often-forgotten life of Swiss alpinist Louise "Loulou" Boulaz.
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Posted February 24, 2017
Local guide Dawa Sherpa describes what it's like to live and work near the base of Jannu/Kumbhakarna—a mountain sacred to his culture.
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Posted February 23, 2017
Russian alpinist Sergey Kofanov recounts his 2007 encounter with the “cosmic cold” shoulder of Jannu, when he and Valery Babanov made the first ascent of the West Pillar in alpine style.
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Posted February 22, 2017
In an Alpinist exclusive poetry feature, award-winning outdoor writer Chip Brown imagines the landscape of the Yukon within the sounds of the city, and in an interview he reflects on the connection between climbing and poetry.
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Posted February 22, 2017
The great Japanese mountaineer Naoe Sakashita looks back on the first complete ascent of the north face of Jannu / Kumbhakarna to the summit of the 7710-meter Himalayan peak, and on his friendship with teammate Nobu-yuki Ogawa.
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