Alpinist Magazine Issue 62 - Summer 2018 Backcountry Gear Guide

Alpinist Magazine Issue 62 - Summer 2018 Backcountry Gear GuideInside Alpinist 62 are more than 114 pages of words and images that examine both historical and modern mountaineering from a wide range of perspectives. Youll find the first part of a two part series on the climbing history of Nanda Devi, Nanda Devi East and Nanda Kot. Within this first part, American alpinist and author Pete Takeda examines the complex interweaving of international mountaineering, local traditions and global politics that helped

the Black Canyon and the Alps

Writer Ryan Stuart discovters that the Buddha teaching of “Life is suffering” doesn’t mean that one is in constant pain

A cartographer maps vanishing glaciers

Kind of like life

two young Pacific Northwest climbers confront the consequences of a recent Cascades winter ascent

turns to Moffat for inspiration as she sets out on a journey through the American West to understand what it really means to abandon everything for the mountains

the Diamond

Caitlin Patterson shares first-hand knowledge of the Olympic courses

Tico Allulee reads between the lines of gobie scars

so we've helped you prioritize what's worth going into debt over

Helander examines some of the brooding history and gothic tales that have gathered around this great peak

with essays by Christian Beckwith