Features:
42 Mountain Profile: The Eiger Contradiction, Part II
The Theater of History MARTIN GUTMANN
70 Verticality
A Short History of the Other Blank on a Map Ben Heason and John Hessler
78 The Sanctity of Space
Traversing the Mooses Tooth Massif Freddie Wilkinson
departments
11 The Sharp End
The Known World Katie Ives
15 On Belay
On the Edge of Spring Jonathan Thesenga
24 Tool Users
Our managing editor looks for a Terrordactyl and meets the Fox of Glencoe.
Gwen Cameron
27 The Climbing Life
Chris Kalman defends the art of soloing. Derek Franz has nightmares of bones.
88 WIRED
Mad, Ill and Admirable: Everest 1962 Maurice Isserman
96 Local Hero
Pat Deavoll Anna Keeling
98 Off Belay
The most classic Yosemite enchainment. James Lucas and Jeremy Collins