Alpinist is an inspirational quarterly and certainly not your average climbing magazine. Produced in glossy high quality paper and featuring both cutting edge mountaineering articles and historical features. With quality you normally find in 'coffee table' hardbacks, it contains well researched and intelligent articles with stunning inspirational images. Alpinist is read for its fascinating content but is treasured for its style and good looks. Its like the National Geographic of Climbing Magazines
The pages of Alpinist capture the art of ascent in its most powerful manifestations, presenting an articulation of climbing and its lifestyle that matches the intensity of the pursuit itself.As the Alpinist Magazine team say;
"We believe in sinker jams high off the deck, a bomber nut, the crescent moon, your partner's whoop, sand-washing the fry pan, road trips, one-swing sticks, remembering to breathe, alpine starts (more for the alpenglow than the early hour), espresso in the desert, the plungestep, lenticular cloudcaps, rest days, the focus of a runout, a cold beer at the end of it all."
If that sums you up then Alpinist Magazine will be for you.
Based out of the USA, Alpinist is not easy to come by in the UK and often has to be ordered in from across the water, however we will be supplying a limited number of each edition, available on our next working day delivery.
Features
Yosemite: A Layered Terrain
In mountaineering literature that focuses on the individual, it can be hard to remember that landscape is not just a backdrop; stories occur where topography and history meet. From famed ascents to razed forests and rockfall, we present one valley ve ways. With texts from Peter Haan, Paula Wright, Peter Croft, Libby Sauter and Chris Kalman, and images by Craig Muderlak, Alex Nabaum, Jamie Givens and Jeremy Collins.
Untracked
In a debate with a fellow guide about the current state of mountaineering, Cosmin Andron struggles to answer the question, What is climbing for? From the Carpathian Mountains of Romania to the Western Garhwal of India, the Romanian alpinist recalls false starts, unplanned walls—and the intense, indescribable feeling that lures him on.
The Many Faces of One Face
On March 25, 1966, Dougal Haston, Sigi Hupfauer, Jörg Lehne, Günther Strobel and Roland Votteler completed the rst ascent of the Eiger Direct on the Eiger North Face. ough the British-American team's trials were well documented, the stories of the German climbers largely faded from the record. On the ftieth anniversary of this controversial climb, German historian Jochen Hemmleb joins British journalist Peter Gillman on a quest for a more "multifaceted," complex history.
Beginnings of Histories
On September 3, 2016, the search for missing climbers Kyle Dempster and Scott Adamson on the Ogre II in Pakistan ended. In these pages, friends and climbing partners alike share memories of two great alpinists and beloved men.
Departments
The Sharp End
Off route and out of time.
Letters
One reader reports on Henry David oreau's reconstruction of early New England maps; another requests that we revisit Pinedale, Wyoming; and the indefatigable Bosley Sidwell calls for applicants to join an imaginary mountain expedition.
On Belay
After ten years as a boulderer, Keita Kurakami attempts what some other local climbers called impossible: a new free route on the daunting 110-meter Moai Face of Mt. Mizugaki—that turned out to be the hardest multipitch trad climb in Japan.
Tool User
The search for the origins of the Jumar takes Anders Ax on a journey to caves, monkeys and marmosets.
Climbing Life
Tami Knight nds the way out. Jenny Abegg confronts anxiety at Indian Creek. Shelton Johnson locates the Cavalryman's Paradise in Yosemite. Jane Jackson seeks space in New Mexico. David Stevenson heads into the blue. And David Roberts revisits moments of doubt.
Full Value
In July 1973 in the Bugaboos, Sibylle Hechtel ropes up with a stranger for the rst ascent of Dégringolade, "a tumbling fall, or plunge."
Wired
Founder of Mountain magazine, the late Ken Wilson was known (in Doug Scott's words) as "a relentless guardian of the soul of mountaineering—as he saw it." John Porter looks back on his nine-month stint in Wilson's mountain world.
Local Hero
After growing up trekking in the mountains of Pakistan, Hanniah Tariq returned in 2012 to the Baltoro Glacier, where decades of waste from mountain tourism littered the area. In response, she founded High Altitude Sustainability Pakistan. Vanessa Beucher reports.
Off Belay
Tami Knight creates a eld guide to modern climbers.