Alpinist Magazine Alpinist 72 | Winter 2020-21 Back Issue

Alpinist issue 72 features the “Gunks Chronicles.” The steep, airy cliffs of the Shawangunks have long collected a rich lore of hard routes, wild antics and eccentric personalities—from the legendary conflicts between the Appies and the Vulgarians to the stylists of the clean-climbing revolution and the age of Lycra, and all the varied bands of old and young climbers who continue to enjoy the crags today. Northeast climbing historian Laura Waterman presents a collection of stories from Gunks protagonists across the decades, including Steven Jervis, Bonnie Prudden, Joe Kelsey, John Bragg, Russ Clune and Whitney Boland. Elsewhere in the magazine, Nick Bullock travels to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison to seek “the essence of climbing.” Amid the area’s deep voids, he finds himself haunted by absences of his past and uncertainties of the future. And Mailee Hung presents drawings of glaciers by Zaria Forman and discusses the artist’s potential impact on climbers’ understanding of climate change. Meanwhile, o