Alpinist Magazine Alpinist 64 | Winter 2018 Back Issue

More than 112 pages of finely crafted essays and beautifully curated photos of wild, vertical landscapes. Our latest issue, Alpinist 64, features tales from forty years of expeditions to Latok I from the north. Jim Donini recounts the 1978 attempt on the North Ridge, with Michael Kennedy, George Lowe and Jeff Lowe—an epic that became a legend. Alexander Gukov recalls reaching a new highpoint on the North Ridge in 2018 with Sergey Glazunov, before an accident resulted in Glazunov's death and Gukov's own high-altitude rescue by Pakistani pilots Major Qazi Muhammad Mazhar-ud-Din, Major Abid Rafique, Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Anjum Rafique and Major Fakhar-e-Abbas. Tom Livingstone reflects on summiting the mountain via a variation of the North Ridge and the southern side with Aleš Česen and Luka Stražar, during the same season. Elsewhere in the magazine, you'll find Polish big-wall climber Marek Raganowicz's reflections on the varieties of silence he has experienced—from his early days as a mountaineer durin