Alpinist Magazine Issue 39 - Summer 2012 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) puffies and pants—the December issue

puffies and pants—the December issue celebrates the awe-inspiring action and locations we love and the gear that gets us there

the guy with the coolest last name in skiing

A broken heart

Susan Chaplin

Keita Kurakami attempts what some other local climbers called impossible: a new free route on the daunting 110-meter Moai Face of Mt

Alpinist Magazine Issue 39 - Summer 2012 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) puffies and pants—the December issueFeatures A Season in Patagonia, Part II Every year, the golden spires of Argentina's Los Glaciares National Park lure alpinists into sagas of storm lashed suffering and existential angst. A decade ago, our inaugural Alpinist 0 presented some of their strongest voices in "A Season in Patagonia." This year, a younger generation of climbers (several under the age of twenty five) took advantage of good weather to revisit old tales and pursue new dreams.