Alpinist Magazine Issue 54 - Summer 2016 Movie

Alpinist Magazine Issue 54 - Summer 2016 MovieAs the deadline approached for this issues cover, we reached out to Jeremy Collins to see if he might have an idea. He recounts: I quickly doodled something imagined: Trango Towers meets Baffin Island meets Cirque of the Unclimbables. A dream valley. Then I set my tool against the art to show scale and its simple handcrafted approach. And thus the cover was bornfast and light, alpine style. Jeremys illustrations grace both the cover and this issues

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Kate Devine grew up spending weeks at her mother's ski-touring hut and dreams of eventually taking over the family business

could those slopes offer an alternative industry

painting their visions on both canvases and mountainsides

The outdoor recreation industry now has a larger economic impact than the combined value of the oil

In 1975 Dick Dorworth wrote a seminal piece titled Night Driving

Beth Rodden

” photojournalist Dana Allen bikepacks the Maine Huts & Trails network

Escape Route When Kurt Albert and Bernd Arnold bolted one of the proudest lines in Patagonia

ONSIGHT LOGIC

Foraker and to explore a landscape of fear

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