Alpinist Magazine Alpinist 77 | Spring 2022 Back Issue

Issue 77 features Michael Gardner’s account of a prolific season on Denali. In the spring of 2021, among other accomplishments, he and Sam Hennessey established a new route on the daunting Isis Face of Denali (carrying skis for the descent) and made the first ski descent of the Northwest Buttress with Adam Fabrikant. Weighing on Gardner’s mind, however, were the potential costs of such experiences. Since his father’s death in a climbing accident in 2008, he has known intimately how “every loss creates an irreplaceable void” and how “the fabric of a community is altered forever.”

Elsewhere in the magazine, photojournalist Sujoy Das describes how a bivouac scene in Tom Hornbein’s Everest: The West Ridge inspired him to set out on his own expeditions to document the haunting beauty of Himalayan nights. And climbing artist Tami Knight recounts how her memories of alpine adventures sustained her while she took care of her elderly mother during the pandemic.

And much, much more….