Alpinist Magazine Issue 44 - Autumn 2013 Accessories

Alpinist Magazine Issue 44 - Autumn 2013 AccessoriesBeyond the crowds on Vinson's normal route, much of the Sentinel Range of Antarctica is a quiet fortress of precise geometry that remains scarcely visited. Yet despite the storms and bitter cold, a few climberslike Mugs Stump and Erhard Loretanhave ventured up big routes in this unearthly landscape, usually in alpine style, often unheralded and alone. After years of mapping the region, Damien Gildea pieces together the history in this issue Mountain

The Wall and Everything

Luca Pandolfi's Big Mountain Dreams

While Peter Croft climbs with ghosts

photographer Ryan Creary and Canadian correspondent Ryan Stuart traveled to a remote region of the St

A century afterward

Consistent snowpit procedure Plus:

their summits have long seemed like part of some mythological realm beyond the reach of modern development

As much as we dream

the ‘Nordwand’ or the ‘Eigerwand’ belongs as much to the watching public as it does to the individual climber

His conclusions

Ryan Stuart excavates for turns

Dora Keen's grandniece recalls the fallout of Keen's nights in the snow cave on Mt