Description of Alpinist Magazine #24

Alpinist Magazine is an archival-quality, quarterly publication dedicated to world alpinism and adventure climbing. The pages of Alpinist capture the art of ascent in its most powerful manifestations, presenting an articulation of climbing and its lifestyle that matches the intensity of the pursuit itself.

At Alpinist, they believe in sinker jams high off the deck, a bomber nut, the crescent moon, your partner's whoop, sand-washing the fry pan, road trips, one-swing sticks, remembering to breathe, alpine starts (more for the alpenglow than the early hour), espresso in the desert, the plungestep, lenticular cloudcaps, rest days, the focus of a runout, a cold beer at the end of it all. If you believe in these things too, join us.

Features:

• Mountain Profile: Denali - The High One has been luring climbers skyward for more than 100 years. Steve House explores the attraction, while Barbara Washburn, Riccardo Cassin, Art Davidson, Doug Scott, Phil Powers and Maxime Turgeon relate their adventures on the top of North America. Steve House and Katie Ives
• Buildering - The formations may be man-made, but the experience remains elemental. A photographic essay explores this age-old offshoot of modern climbing. Andrew Burr
• The Grand Plan - Think America's deepest hole is just for floating? Think again. A team of climbers plunges in—and reimagines the future of climbing. Tommy Caldwell
• Stolby - For most climbers, soloing is out-there enough. But an entire Siberian community of city folk who have soloed en masse every weekend for the last 150 years? That's off the charts. Jonathan Thesenga
• The Upturned World - One of the most transcendent mountains in the world offers a portal to another way of being. But once you're in there, how do you get out? Valeriy Babanov
• Booty - A necky wood rat. The Editors
• Short Pitches - Cragging news from Wyoming and Washington.
• Editor's Note - Baby Grows Up. Kim Csizmazia
• Namesake - How the Grapefruit Dance got its name. Will Gadd
• The First Modern Climbing Harness - America’s first real climbing harness. The Editors
• Contributors
• Letters - From the depths of the lame to the heights of the divine.
• The Climbing Life - Observations from the field.
• Escape Route - The weight of history can be the biggest obstacle to an ascent. One climber goes up against the legends and finds the results remarkably liberating. Topher Donahue
• First Ascent - Sometimes it takes a little vision to see the diamond in the coal mine. A celebration of an über-choss classic. Peter Croft
• Full Value - s if hanging by one hand, unclipped from the rope, 200 feet off the deck in the midst of an Alaskan storm weren’t enough, this Montana hardman also had to worry about what his mama would say... Jack Tackle
• Off Belay - Fred Beckey and friends. Corey Rich
• Wired - Keeping a route under the radar may seem fine—until someone else claims it as a first ascent. But if climbers refuse to talk about their lines, do they have any rights to them later on? The Editors
• Local Hero - Barry Blanchard extols Eamonn Walsh, the Canadian Rockies’ Man of Girth, whose big heart and big-alpine talent keep him honest. With photographs by Cory Richards. Barry Blanchard