Alpinist Magazine Issue 35 - Summer 2011 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF)

Alpinist Magazine Issue 35 - Summer 2011 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF)Features Out of Darkness In the spring of 2009, Jonny Copp, Micah Dash and Wade Johnson died below the 8,530 foot east face of Mt. Edgar (21,713') in the Minya Konka Range of Sichuan, China. A year and a half later, Kyle Dempster and Bruce Normand followed their path through mist and avalanches to finish a dangerous route they believe no one should climb again. Kyle Dempster Forest and Fog Today, Sonnie Trotter is known for hard trad ascents of routes

Editorial Director Adam Howard skied it for himself

But sometimes

Off Belay Kristen Rowe and Mike McMahon recount their quest to capture an image of a climber atop Ancient Art in the Fisher Towers

What will the backcountry look like over the next decade and beyond

bro downs and something better than sex

The Climbing Life Katie Lambert falls

or is having the greatest impact on our sport

lingers the question of how future alpinists might rise to these challenges

the most classic climbs are like favorite poems: memorized and recited over and over throughout a lifetime

Victorian intellectuals climbed in search of a new

more safety

Throughout each profile