American Alpine Journal 2022 -The World’s Most Significant Climbs

Published annually since 1929, the American Alpine Journal is renowned as the world’s journal of record for long new climbs of all kinds. The AAJ publishes each year’s most compelling mountaineering stories, told by the climbers themselves and carefully edited by a team of experts. Each year’s edition reveals newly discovered climbing destinations and unclimbed summits, from Alaska to the Karakoram, with hundreds of color photos.

AAJ 2022 features first-person reports on groundbreaking climbs and ski mountaineering descents around the world. Feature stories describe the incredible first ascent of the southeast ridge of Annapurna III in Nepal, the new age of ski alpinism in the Alaska Range, and a new history section covering fascinating characters from climbing’s past. Hundreds of other reports document first ascents and mountain exploration around the world. Published annually since 1929, the American Alpine Journal is the renowned as the finest journal of its kind.

• Hundreds of first-person reports and photos
• The AAJ goes beyond social media and marketing copy with in-depth reports, carefully edited by a team of experts
• The «Recon» section covers the climbing history and new-route potential of Ushba, the «Matterhorn of the Caucasus» in eastern Europe

336 pages