Alpinist Magazine Alpinist 65 | Spring 2019 Back Issue

Inside Alpinist 65 are more than 112 pages of finely crafted essays and beautifully curated photos of elusive and wild vertical landscapes. You’ll begin with Issue 65, featuring a Crag Profile of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in Colorado, whose dark walls have allured and repulsed climbers for more than eighty years. With harrowing tales of gothic spires, tumbling blocks and poison ivy, climber and guidebook author Vic Zeilman recounts decades of adventures, from the Ute people and early European American explorers who descended into the deep chasm, to the modern climbers who ventured up its steepest, biggest walls. Jamie Logan, Ed Webster and Amanda Tarr Forrest also share some of their encounters with the storied cliffs. Elsewhere in the magazine, Scottish climber Natalie Berry writes about exploring possible new routes in the archipelago of St. Kilda, once home to a centuries’ old culture whose members scaled steep cliffs to hunt seabirds to support their community. Meanwhile, Indian photojournalist