Alpinist Magazine Issue 58 | Summer 2017 Back Issue

More than 112 pages including stories that range in setting from the Golden Age of Yosemite to the modern era of cutting-edge rock climbing and Himalayan mountaineering. Doug Robinson, Joe Fitschen, Jack Turner, Peter Haan, Pat Ament and Tamara Robbins share memories of the late Royal Robbins, whose life, ascents, writing and ethos played a key role in the development of American climbing styles and environmental philosophies. Editor-in-chief Katie Ives considers the changing landscapes of storytelling that continue to emerge as new writers enter the genre of climbing literature. Caroline Treadway interviews Lynn Hill, Steph Davis, Beth Rodden, Pamela Shanti Pack and other women who are closing the gender gap in the upper limits of hard trad climbing. Photographer Claudia Camila López pursues images of people, crags and peaks from her childhood home in Colombia across the world’s great ranges, as she searches for the elusive, invisible spirits of mountaineering. Jeff Shapiro sets out for the unclimbed south s