The Alpine Journal 2010/2011

Volume 115

The prestigious Alpine Journal is the oldest mountaineering journal in the
world. This 115th volume includes accounts of most exciting climbing
expeditions of the last two years.

Mick Fowler describes his escape from a crevasse in the Chinese Tien Shan
before going on to make the first ascent of the 1600m north face of Sulamar
(5380m). It is just one of a dozen stories told in this AJ by climbers pushing
the limits in ranges around the world.

In a thoughtful essay, Doug Scott weighs the pleasures and pitfalls of honours
and competition in mountaineering; Lindsay Griffin examines ‘traditional
values’ in climbing; and in an extensive book review section, Jim Curran draws
harsh lessons from a spate of books on the perils of K2.

Details on new routes around the world in an authoritative Area Notes
sections, new historical research on George Mallory and also plant hunter
Joseph Hooker, a report on climate change in the mountains, and watercolours
of Bhutan all contribute to the variety of this latest Alpine Journal.

Editor of the AJ since 2004, Stephen Goodwin is a journalist, climber and
guidebook author. He went freelance in 1999 after 13 years as a staff
correspondent on The Independent, mainly covering politics at Westminster. In
1998 he reached the south summit of Everest, filing an award-winning diary to
The Independent. His guidebook, 20 Day Walks in the Lake District, was
published in 2009 by Vertebrate Graphics.