Alpinist | Issue 53 | Spring 2016
105 pages of climbing imagery and lore, including a 30-page Zion National Park Mountain Profile; an essay by Szu-ting Yi on new routing in China’s Qionglai Mountains; award-winning author Mark Jenkins’ discussion of writing and climbing in Wyoming’s Cloud Peak Wilderness; Graham Zimmerman’s account of the first ascent of Changi Tower and the Southwest Ridge of K6; Lise Billon, Jérôme Sullivan, Diego Simari and Antoine Moineville’s expedition to the Southern Patagonian Icefield; Mingma Gyalje Sherpa’s solo of Khang Tagri and much more. Our issue leads off with Alpinist Editor-in-Chief Katie Ives bringing the reader through the decades of female mountaineering starting in the Swiss Alps in 1888 and ending with present day. The Departments continue, with the history of the Indian Creek route “Tricks are for Kids” by Derek Franz. Tool Users examines the world’s first sticky rubber shoe, the Boreal Firés; The Climbing Life takes readers on an ascent of Denali’s Wickersham Wall in 1981; Claire J. Carter’s shares
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Alpinist Issue 53 | Spring 2016.