Alpinist Magazine Issue 64 - Winter 2018 backcountry

Alpinist Magazine Issue 64 - Winter 2018 backcountryAlpinist Winter 2018 An Invisible Compass Features All from Nothing Forty years ago, Jim Donini, Michael Kennedy, George Lowe and Jeff Lowe made an attempt on the North Ridge of Latok I that became a legend. Decades later, the peak has dominated headlines again: in July 2018, Alexander Gukov and Sergey Glazunov reached a new highpoint before an accident resulted in Glazunov's death; in early August, Ale esen, Luka Straar and Tom Livingstone summited

Oskar Enander

Jessie Diggins and Rosie Brennan lived within the Davis U

In this first part of a two-part series on the legacies of climbing on Nanda Devi—and the nearby summits of Nanda Devi East and Nanda Kot—Takeda explores the interweaving of mountaineering

Sallie Greenwood looks back on the extraordinary

MOUNTAIN ACCOUNT: MANAGING OVERHEAD

Christopher Elliott climbs a rock spire on the island of Soqotra to learn more about its mysterious summit cairn (three years after Mike Libecki described it in Alpinist 34)

Department contents: "As record setting heat and wildfires topped the news throughout summer in the Pacific Northwest last year

waistband and cuffs

Words and Images by California Travis

Photo Finish

Despite a defect in Cairns's vertebrae that left him paralyzed below the knees

and relationships and families often have to wait