\nFeatures <\/p>\n
Art of the Topo
\nBefore his death in 2017, Hayden Kennedy pitched Alpinist a story on what he
\nsaw as the endangered art of the topo. Alongside the draft Kennedy left
\nbehind, Jeremy Collins, Clay Wadman, Tessa Lyons, Vic Zeilman and Paula Wright
\nshare a few images of climbing’s illustrated worlds. <\/p>\n
Pandora’s Box
\nIn 2009 Japanese alpinist Kei Taniguchi became the first woman to receive a
\nPiolet d’Or for her first ascent of the Southeast Face of Kamet (7756m), with
\nKazuya Hiraide. During the final years of her life, Taniguchi continued to
\nexplore challenging new routes, while hinting at a mysterious personal quest.
\nPiecing together diary entries and interviewing family and friends, her
\nbiographer Akihiro Oishi tries to see inside what Taniguchi called «the
\nPandora’s box.» <\/p>\n
Less Rich Without You
\nIn 2018, at age fifty-two, famed British mountaineer Nick Bullock left for his
\ntwenty-fourth expedition: a journey to attempt a new route on Minya Konka, a
\n7556-meter peak in Sichuan Province, China. Amid heavy mist and falling snow,
\nhe and his climbing partner Paul Ramsden searched for a way through the
\nhazardous maze of an icefall\u2014and through the allures and pitfalls of a modern
\nprofessional climbing life. <\/p>\n
Blood That Dreams of Stone
\nDuring the early twentieth century, the talented young poet Antonia Pozzi
\nsought freedom from her family and her society amid the rock spires of the
\nDolomites and other Italian peaks. David Smart provides an introduction to her
\ncareer, along with translations of three of her climbing poems, with the help
\nof Brian McKenzie. <\/p>\n
Departments <\/p>\n
Sharp End
\nRetracing the steps of a famous guidebook author, our editor-in-chief goes on
\na pilgrimage to an alpine basin left off most maps. <\/p>\n
Letters
\nOur readers write. <\/p>\n
On Belay
\nFor 141 years since its first ascent, mountaineers from around the world
\ntraveled to climb la Meije in the Massif des \u00c9crins of France. Meanwhile, the
\npermafrost that held its stones together was melting. On August 7, 2018,
\nrockfall destroyed much of the normal route. Two locally based guides\u2014Benjamin
\nRibeyre and Erin Smart\u2014recount a search for a new way up the peak amid the
\nuncertainties of the planet’s future. <\/p>\n
Tool User
\nJohn Hessler explores the history of an energy bar invented in 1869: the
\nfamously (or infamously) sweet Kendal Mint Cake. <\/p>\n
Climbing Life
\nErin Connery has a perfect climbing day. Derek Franz learns to keep quiet.
\nDavid Wilson observes the end of winter. Rebecca Young climbs above the
\nflames. David Guterson turns around. Tami Knight strikes (yet again). Spencer
\nGray retraces second lines. <\/p>\n
Wired
\nIn mountains across Turtle Island (North America), Anishinaabe climber Kayla
\nDeVault de Wendt seeks a means to find harmony between current practices of
\noutdoor recreation and ongoing traditions of Indigenous peoples. <\/p>\n
Local Hero
\nWhether they’ve collected summits, books or memories, many climbers long to
\npreserve records of the past. Paula Wright presents the person responsible for
\ncataloguing and managing one of the most extensive of these collections: Katie
\nSauter, director of the Henry S. Hall Jr. American Alpine Club Library. <\/p>\n
Off Belay
\nShawnt\u00e9 Salabert examines what it might really mean to leave a trace or not. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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