Alpinist Magazine Issue 44 - Autumn 2013

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Alpinist Magazine Issue 44 - Autumn 2013Beyond the crowds on Vinson's normal route, much of the Sentinel Range of Antarctica is a quiet fortress of precise geometry that remains scarcely visited. Yet despite the storms and bitter cold, a few climberslike Mugs Stump and Erhard Loretanhave ventured up big routes in this unearthly landscape, usually in alpine style, often unheralded and alone. After years of mapping the region, Damien Gildea pieces together the history in this issue Mountain

Deep Freeze

For seven years now

Freddie Wilkinson Bachar-Yerian How do you climb a blank wall without "murdering the impossible"

we reached out to see if he might have an idea

Powderchaser Steve on meteorology and the pursuit of the untracked

Sharp End Reading and writing between the lines

That world's longest letter chain

MISSIONARIES OF THE MOUNTAINS

Things get sticky

When Editor Adam Howard and photographer Jeff Diener went to Chamonix

Wired Austrian climber Hermann Buhl remains one of the most iconic figures in mountaineering literature

shares her experiences of what it was like to grow up "in the shadow of his myth