Alpinist Magazine Issue 31 - Summer 2010

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Alpinist Magazine Issue 31 - Summer 2010Profile Mountain Profile: Logan Massif When the great Canadian alpinist Hans Gmoser first saw the Logan massif from a distance, he exclaimed, "I wonder if I, if my friends are strong enough to climb such a monster!" Rising from one of the world's largest nonpolar icecaps, with 13,500 feet of vertical relief, over a dozen peaks and subpeaks, countless ridges and faces, and an immense high altitude plateau, Logan is more like a separate planet than a

A lot's changed

thought and act

Gwen Cameron spends a lot of time in the parking lot

the most classic climbs are like favorite poems: memorized and recited over and over throughout a lifetime

Leslie Anthony ponders deep ecology

It doesn't mean you have a death wish

They're skiers and snowboarders

the Gunks and the desert

Things get sticky

Our managing editor investigates the evolution of the modern crampon

With an introduction by Bernadette McDonald

Renan Ozturk and Jimmy Chin set forth to climb a route that—for decades—existed merely in alpinists' imaginations