ALPINIST 47

Features
42 Mountain Profile: The Picket Range

The Ark of the Wild Forest McBrian
70 Sendero Luminoso

In January 2014, Alex Honnold free soloed El Sendero Luminoso, a big wall in
Mexico’s El Potrero Chico. Today, he looks beyond the momentary purity of
ascent at the complex impacts of professional climbing. Alex Honnold
76 Visions of Charlie Porter

departments
11 The Sharp End: A Wild of One’s Own

Editor-in-Chief Katie Ives searches for «A Wild of One’s Own» in the annals
of women’s mountaineering history in Western Canada and the writings of Mary
Schaeffer Warren, who urges, «…leave your world, your recognized world, and
plunge into the vast unknown.» Katie Ives
15 Letters

A reader reminds us of his ascent on Mitre Peak. Another suggests a more
pleasant version of saying «[#@%]()!» And Alpinist’s history guru recalls a
meeting with Sun-woo Nam.
17 On Belay

The Painter in the Cave. David Pickford
29 The Climbing Life

Helen Mort, Tico Allulee, Mark Conrad Rodell and Derek Franz
89 Wired

Everest Interrupted. Tashi Sherpa
97 Off Belay

The Last American Dirtbag (TLAD Industries) seeks a qualified assistant
dirtbag. James Lucas