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Posted April 2, 2020
In this story, US Army Mountain Warfare School officer Nathan Fry shares his experience with the NATO Partnership for Peace Program that took place in Switzerland in the summer of 2019. "At a time when international relationships seem to be fracturing, engagements such as the Partnership for Peace mountaineering course have taken on a new value in creating a shared appreciation for other cultures," he writes.
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Posted March 27, 2020
In this Climbing Life story from Alpinist 69—which is now available on newsstands and in our online store—Tami Knight shares some background about the inspiration of a cartoon that she created many years ago, titled "Roger and Ed at the Ahwahnee Brunch." She writes, "Roger is an amalgamation of the climbers I knew at that time in Yosemite.... Ed, on the other hand—Ed Spat to give his full name—was a real guy." In addition to her story, she has also updated the cartoon in full color.
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Posted March 24, 2020
In this Mountain Profile essay from Alpinist 69—which is now available on newsstands and in our online store—Ben Tibbetts writes of completing the Mont Blanc Royal Traverse with Colin Haley in 2018. The 41 kilometer route along the mountain's main axis was first attempted by Kilian Jornet and Stephane Brosse in 2012, but ended when a cornice collapsed and killed Brosse. In this story, Tibbetts confronts his own setbacks and fears after being involved in two avalanches.
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Posted March 23, 2020
In this Mountain Profile essay from Alpinist 69—which is now available on newsstands and in our online store—Claude Gardien recounts Walter Bonatti's checkered relationship with Mont Blanc. Gardien writes: "Again and again, on mountains around the world, he'd lived through the hell of alpinists, when the elements unleash and everything becomes suffering, tragedy, grief. On Mont Blanc, he'd also known a few moments of ineffable beauty—as if he'd encountered that formidable privilege, as the writer Georges Sonnier suggested, of 'contemplating the eye of the god.'"
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Posted March 19, 2020
In this Mountain Profile essay from Alpinist 69—which is now available on newsstands and in our online store—David Smart recounts the bold endeavors of Paul Preuss to complete the longest ridge traverse in the Alps, and his final season of climbing in 1913.
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Posted March 18, 2020
In this Mountain Profile essay from Alpinist 69—which is now available on newsstands and in our online store—Alpinist Deputy Editor Paula Wright describes the first winter ascent of Mont Blanc in 1876, by Mary Isabella Straton, Jean Charlet, Sylvain Couttet and Michel Balmat. "Women are capable of everything," historian Charles Durier later wrote in his book, Le Mont-Blanc.
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Posted March 6, 2020
Looking at the role of summits in climbing history, from the early days to twentieth-century discussions and more recent Himalayan news about inaccurate claims, Editor-in-Chief Katie Ives asks: What is the measure of a mountain?
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Posted February 20, 2020
In this story that was commissioned as part of the Covering Climate Now campaign, Ilana Newman and photographer Matthew Tangeman document how melting glaciers have caused drastic changes to some popular climbing routes on Koma Kulshan (Mt. Baker) in Washington.
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Posted January 27, 2020
In this Sharp End story from Alpinist 68—which is currently on newsstands—Alpinist Editor-in-Chief Katie Ives goes in search of a secluded alpine basin to retrace the steps of a famous guidebook author, Harvey Manning.
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Posted January 22, 2020
Dee Molenaar died January 19 at age 101. In honor of his inspiring life, we are sharing a profile written by Michael Ybarra for the Climbing Life section of Alpinist 36 (Autumn 2011). Sadly, Ybarra preceded Molenaar in death, when he died in the summer of 2012 while climbing solo in California's Sierra Nevada Range. Both men are dearly missed.
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