Alpinist Magazine Issue 51 - Autumn 2015 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF)

Alpinist Magazine Issue 51 - Autumn 2015 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF)Features Mountain Profile: The Aiguille du Dru Part II (19552015) "It seemed built to perpetuate our dreams"thus Guido Magnone described the Aiguille du Dru in The West Face. Ian Parnell relives the history of a peak poised between mountaineering fantasies and environmental realities. Royal Robbins, Claude Remy, Andy Parkin and Jrme Sullivan share dispatches from the past to the future. Going Home Dean Potter, Graham Hunt and Sean Leary were climbers

First Ascent In 1994 Alex Lowe was the "undisputed chief" of the North American climbing community

We report on which ones work best for riders

Peter Kray and Drew Pogge investigate the evolution of the ski bum

Albert Leichtfried and Don Mellor

Mike Libecki took his 11-year-old daughter ski touring—in Antarctica

On getting chicked

McLeanings:

in the process

Swix's former product manager and longtime wax innovator talks World Cup racing

France last April to ski for three days in the shadow of skiing's biggest risk taker

choosing the best

breathable fabrics—a problem that Inuit people had solved for themselves centuries ago