Alpinist 22

Mountain Profile: Ben Nevis

Dreamfall:
Ines Papert had always dreamed of the perfect ice climb–until a trip to
Iceland with Audrey Gariepy taught her she’d have to create it herself.

Lightning Strikes Last:
What do you do when your passion for climbing keeps getting you hurt? Stephan
Siegrist simply persevered until seven years of bad fortune led to unexpected
good luck.

Escape Route:
Squamish’s Freeway is as clean as a white T-shirt in a Tide commercial and
boasts a dozen pitches of first- and second-knuckle-swallowing joy. For this
Canadian climber, it is, hands down, the best route in the world. Sonnie
Trotter

First Ascent:
The great Fritz Wiessner himself told Jim McCarthy not to do it. So what did
the young climber do? What any budding vulgarian would: he ignored the advice,
climbed Wiessner’s Crack–and then put up his own route on the untouched west
face of Devils Tower.