Alpinist Magazine Issue 66 - Summer 2019 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF)

Alpinist Magazine Issue 66 - Summer 2019 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF)Featuring Yosemite climber Lonnie Kauk (the son of legendary climber Ron Kauk and Ahwahneechee descendant and basketmaker Lucy Parker). In an oral history, friends and family join Lonnie in narrating his journey from growing up beneath the granite cliffs of Tu Tok A Nu La (El Capitan) to seeking to honor his ancestors through his first redpoint ascent of his fathers Magic Line, considered one of the most difficult single pitch trad climbs in the

Out in the skintrack

during a winter expedition to the vast granite of Baffin Island

the worst of times—winter in the Northeast embodies all that Charles Dickens wrote about in his iconic Tale of Two Cities opening line

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Libations and jokes aside

Mark Rodell contemplates the difference that fifty feet make

instead bringing together a crew of new testers and veterans to determine the best boards

behold the triumph of the Powderwhore in the never ending search for deep untracked snow

and photographer Mason Mashon and skier Rory Bushfield recall adventures and misadventure while accessing lines via Bushfield’s 1953 Cessna 180

a few years before his assassination

along with a group of Swedes and Canadians

Shred philosopher Taro Tamai