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Posted June 26, 2014
Following years of quiet climbing, Alaska's Revelation Mountains see their most active season on record.
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Posted June 24, 2014
Cory Richards, a regular Alpinist contributor, considers the realm of the uncomfortable along with the realities of modern alpinism.
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Posted June 17, 2014
Jerzy Porebski and artist Ewa Labaj explore the great alpinist's life in a comic strip. For many, including Reinhold Messner, Buhl was, and always will be, a legend. "When Buhl was declared missing I cried, too," Messner wrote.
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Posted May 30, 2014
Harvey Carter's words become a catalyst for writer Chris Van Leuven's quest to understand how climbing prepares us for the challenges of ordinary existence, the approach of old age and the unavoidability of loss.
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Posted May 15, 2014
Fifty-five years ago, the famous Recompense at Cathedral Ledge was first climbed with wooden wedges. It was by the imagination and British boldness of this gentleman, John Turner, who injected new life into a stagnating New England climbing scene in the 1950s. Another New England great, Ed Webster, recounts Turners' more venturesome climbing tales in this web feature.
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Posted April 28, 2014
To look behind the layers of mythology that still gather around Mt. Everest is not merely a matter of pointing out differences in mountaineering styles. To the degree that Sherpas and other local guides remained invisible in international Everest stories, their concerns, their risks and the value of their lives appeared invisible, too.
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Posted April 25, 2014
"[I]n 'post'-colonial democracies where ethnic minorities carry the burden of insidious and vicious prejudices at every turn, Sherpas are fortunate. Everyone loves us, everyone trusts us, and everyone wants their own collectable one of us...."
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Posted March 4, 2014
A strong climber, bold BASE jumper, future father and good friend, remembered.
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Posted February 28, 2014
Between January 20 and February 3, a climbing team of five Norwegians and the British alpinist Andy Kirkpatrick climbed in capsule style for 27 pitches up the thrice-attempted South Ridge of Ulvetanna in Antarctica's Queen Maud Land. Herein, Kirkpatrick tells their tale of success.
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Posted January 20, 2014
Alex Honnold talks about the most technically demanding and involved big wall he's yet soloed, and why it was so easy.
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