Alpinist Magazine Issue 60 | Winter 2017 Back Issue

Inside Alpinist 60 are more than 112 pages of finely crafted essays and beautifully curated photos of elusive and wild vertical landscapes. This issue features Part II of the Mountain Profile of la Meije, in which Erin Smart chronicles the history of the mountain that managed—as the novelist Édouard Estaunié once wrote—to “live a life apart,” while Paula Wright, Claude Gardien, Bruno Gardent and Pascal Tournaire share stories from its quiet slopes. Elsewhere in the magazine, James Edward Mills recounts the story of Hugues Beauzile, the son of a Haitian immigrant who became one of the most promising alpinists in France before his untimely death in 1995. Denali pilot and artist Leighan Falley illustrates the mountains of Alaska as seen from above. Jérôme Sullivan recalls a remote journey into Greenland to climb a new line on the icy Apostelens Tommelfinger (2300m). Katie Ives ponders vanishing landscapes of glaciers, and Jeff Snyder journeys through layers of history into the Grand Canyon in pursuit of a first