Alpinist Magazine Issue 29 - Winter 2009-10 Print or Digital?:Print Issue

Alpinist Magazine Issue 29 - Winter 2009-10 Print or Digital?:Print IssueFeatures Mountain Profile: Mt. Robson Ice gargoyles, serac mazes and legendary epics. Few mountains haunt their climbers as much as Robson does. Since the early twentieth century, aspirants have struggled up the highest point of the Canadian Rockies; relatively few succeed. Barry Blanchard looks behind the mists, while Don Gordon, Ron Perla, Tom Spencer, Pat Callis, Jim Logan and Steve House contribute more gothic tales of the "King." Go East Many

and discovering that people have more in common with bears than he thought

Prentiss’s poems remind you of the work of Gary Snyder and the harsh lives of the characters in Jack Driscoll’s short stories

gear gurus and cover capturers

BASE STUDY: A FRESH PETEX PATTERN CAN GO A LONG WAY FAST

MOUNTAIN SKILLS: RED LIGHT DISTRICT

a nod to its climbers—and to all the Japanese contributors of Issue 30

Climbs in this region of the Shawangunks have not appeared in any printed guidebook

"Any ascent of Jannu is a leap into the unknown

How do we endure

Noah Howell

read the comments and distilled it into 25 pages of technical information and tester feedback

Doug McCarty