Alpinist Magazine Issue 55 - Autumn 2016 Gift Subscriptions

Alpinist Magazine Issue 55 - Autumn 2016 Gift SubscriptionsFeatures Mountain Profile Not far from the famous Tetons, much of the Wind River Range of Wyoming remains relatively quiet, small figures of human travelers easily lost within its intricate corners and vast massifs. Joe Kelsey, great chronicler of these mountains, once wrote: "There isn't much reason to make the effort to visit the Wind Rivers unless you believe in somethingsomething encompassed, however imprecisely, by the term wilderness." Paula

Kai Lightner explores the old and the new

Devon O'Neil travels to the Pehota's Pemberton

Sewage snow and sacred grounds

consider the past

" Rebuilt In 2002 Craig DeMartino survived a hundred-foot ground fall

has long skied on the highest stage

As AT gear improves

it's designed to safely facilitate learning for new backcoun- try users

Pat Deavoll didn't

he and George Rodway recount some of the mysteries behind this enigmatic image—whose photographer remains unknown

the editor in chief's lunchbox notes and rescue sled feedback

The Girl Who Loved Getting Lost