2009 AMERICAN ALPINE JOURNAL Vol. 51 – The World’s Most Significant Climbs

* The American Alpine Journal is the reference source for everyone planning anything new in the mountains or venturing into remote ranges.
* Nearly 150 pages of exciting stories about the most important climbs of the year, as told by the climbers themselves, and reviews of the best climbing books of the year.
* Nearly 250 pages of short reports from new routes in the world’s mountains

In this year’s American Alpine Journal, Chad Kellogg finds closure on a
Chinese mountain with bitter memories; Mike Libecki surveys a wild region of
unclimbed walls in Greenland; Katsutaka Yokoyama and the Giri-Giri Boys
introduce enchainment to North America’s highest mountain; Paul Knott and
Bruce Normand lift the veil from unclimbed summits of the Chinese Tien-Shan
range; a Japanese pair succeeds on the much-eyed southeast face of Kamet, the
third-highest peak in India; and Valery Babanov recounts his two new routes on
8,000-meter peaks in a single season. Plus more from Baffin Island, Patagonia,
and summits between.