\nAlpinist Magazine Issue 66 – Summer 2019 <\/p>\n
Featuring Yosemite climber Lonnie Kauk (the son of legendary climber Ron Kauk
\nand Ahwahneechee descendant and basketmaker Lucy Parker). In an oral history,
\nfriends and family join Lonnie in narrating his journey from growing up
\nbeneath the granite cliffs of Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La (El Capitan) to seeking to honor
\nhis ancestors through his first redpoint ascent of his father\u2019s Magic Line,
\nconsidered one of the most difficult single-pitch trad climbs in the Valley.<\/p>\n
Features<\/p>\n
Magic Line
\nThe son of legendary climber Ron Kauk and Ahwahneechee descendant Lucy Parker,
\nLonnie Kauk has long felt a deep connection to the rocks of his home in
\nYosemite Valley. In this oral history, Lonnie, friends and family recount his
\njourney from growing up beneath the granite cliffs of Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La (El
\nCapitan) to making the first redpoint ascent of his father’s Magic Line, once
\nconsidered the most difficult single-pitch climb in the Valley.<\/p>\n
Moonshadow
\nJeremy Collins reflects on a few of the luminaries of Zion\u2013\u2013from the
\nIndigenous Paiute people to legendary climber Jeff Lowe and famed painters and
\nartists\u2013\u2013in the only way he knows how: climbing the sandstone towers and
\npicking up a pencil to draw. In Collins’s attempt to free climb Moonlight
\nButtress, he finds just what he was looking for in its shadow. <\/p>\n
Thirteen Feet Under
\nLast April, while scouting ice climbs deep within Canada’s Banff National
\nPark, Michelle Kadatz was engulfed by an avalanche that swept her 650 feet
\ndown slope and buried her at a depth far beyond the reach of her partners‘
\navalanche probes. Her improbable rescue, however, wasn’t as unusual as what
\nshe experienced while entombed thirteen feet under. A year layer, Jayme Moye
\nrecounts Kadatz’s accident.<\/p>\n
Through the Lens
\nIn 2015 Amy Liu was at base camp preparing for an ascent of Chomolungma (Mt.
\nEverest) when an earthquake hit Nepal. Struck in her tent by avalanche debris,
\nLiu was later air-lifted from base camp to a hospital. During her long
\nrecovery, she traveled to the Canadian Rockies, where she discovered that
\nseeing mountains through a new lens could help restore her connection to the
\nlandscape.
\nDepartments<\/p>\n
Sharp End
\nClimbing in the «Age of Wonder.»<\/p>\n
Letters
\nOne reader reflects on «The Secret of Silence»; another remembers her son.<\/p>\n
On Belay
\nAt 4000 meters, the Spiti Valley is home to one of the highest concentrations
\nof unclimbed waterfall ice in India. In January 2019, a group of climbers and
\nreporter Maya Prabhu convened for the first-ever Piti-Dharr Ice Climbing
\nFestival to explore some of the remote, jeweled falls. Meanwhile, Din\u00e9 climber
\nLen Necefer ventures to Waw Giwulk, a sacred peak to the Tohono O’odham people
\nin southern Arizona. <\/p>\n
Tool User
\nFor thousands of years, humans have left traces of their presence on mountain
\nsummits. Herein, Allison Williams documents the rise of a peculiarly American
\nmethod of chronicling ascents: the summit register.<\/p>\n
Climbing Life
\nAustyn Gaffney seeks out vistas. Cassidy Randall chronicles the life and times
\nof mountaineer Mary Vaux, one of the few women studying glacial recession at
\nthe end of the nineteenth century. Chip Brown considers what the mountain
\nkept. Tami Knight forgets her password, while Derek Franz searches for words
\namong the rocks. And Don Nguyen becomes a mountain guide.<\/p>\n
Full Value
\nWilliam Dwyer III recounts a tale from deep within a crevasse at the bottom of
\nthe earth\u2014and of his reorientation to life above ground. <\/p>\n
Wired
\nIn 1827, at the dawn of glacier science, physics professor James D. Forbes
\nfirst set foot on the Mer de Glace, the largest glacier in Chamonix. Herein,
\nJohn Hessler recounts the professor’s earliest field experiments on the laws
\nof glacial motion and the new relevance of complex fluid dynamics equations in
\nan era of global climate change.<\/p>\n
Local Hero
\nMichael A. Estrada profiles Emily Taylor, the first known Black woman to climb
\nthe Nose and the founder of Brown Girls Climbing, whose work to make US
\nclimbing more diverse feels more momentous to Taylor than the moment she stood
\natop El Capitan.<\/p>\n
Off Belay
\nAnna Callaghan goes far and away on the Ptarmigan Traverse.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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