Alpinist Magazine Issue 89 | Spring 2025 Prints & Posters

Alpinist Magazine Issue 89 | Spring 2025 Prints & PostersCover: Mary Catherine Eden squeezes up Gabriel (5. 13), an offwidth route in Zion National Park. Keisuke Mizuno Features In the Shadow of the Grand The world renowned alpinist Michael Gardner guided Brendan Jones up the Grand Teton in 2022. The two kept in touch with plans for Jones to write a magazine profile about Gardners wild and unusual life. Meanwhile, Gardner continued to climb new lines, ski first descents and set speed records on Denalis

THE HAPPINESS OF PURSUIT

celebrate after winning the silver medal in the cross-country skiing men's team sprint at the 2026 Winter Olympics

Liam McGee examines the next phase of avalanche control and its effect on backcountry skiers

Tom Higgins Tool Users Contributors

A year after Michael's death in the Sierra Nevada

Seven days lost on Mount Elbrus

with the right route and the right partner

Matt Samet elucidates the true meaning of nonsensical route names

running a commercial fishing operation and the loss of her earliest mentor

After doctors fused vertebrae in his back and neck

Baxter State Park

Leo Houlding