Alpinist Magazine Issue 33 - Winter 2010-11 Bags

Alpinist Magazine Issue 33 - Winter 2010-11 BagsFeatures 32 Mountain Profile: The Grand Teton At 13,770 feet, the Grand Teton reveals a complete alpine world: a foreboding North Face, sunny classic ridges, steep snow couloirs and (sometimes) ice lines. Yet perhaps what's most interesting, as local historian Paul Horton says, is "the interaction of man and mountain over the years. It's remarkable, maybe unique among American mountains, that such a complex history was so well preserved." Renny

bottomless blower and solitude in the land of 127 million people

and Tami Knight reminds us that our shit really does still stink

The Beautiful & The Beast In 1993 Lynn Hill made the first free ascent of the Nose

but before you do

often-forgotten life of Swiss alpinist Louise "Loulou" Boulaz

So what happens when your bc partner is family

he was a Tennessee youth trying to prove himself on one of the scariest cliffs in the South

Tibet and Pakistan

every year for Gear Test Week

Megan Michelson

Kickturnstarter

Vasu Sojitra rips the backcountry harder than you