Alpinist Magazine Alpinist 79 | Autumn 2022 Back Issue

Issue 79 features a Mountain Profile of Forbidden Peak in the North Cascades, in which Forest McBrian follows the alpine travels of Skagit and Sauk people, the early climbing excursions of the Mazamas and The Mountaineers, the first ascent of the mountain in 1940 and the explorations of additional routes and ski tours in the years since. Along the way, McBrian examines the shifting concepts of what “wild” has meant in the climbing and the conservation history of the region. Meanwhile, Carla Firey—daughter of the famous mountaineering couple Joan and Joe Firey—and ski-mountaineering historian Lowell Skoog, author of Written in the Snows, add tales of their own to the storied peak.