Alpinist Magazine Issue 37 - Winter 2011-12

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Alpinist Magazine Issue 37 - Winter 2011-12Features Mountain Profile: K2, Part I (18561954) In recent years, the "Everestification" of K2 (8611m) has brought increas ing quantities of fixed rope, oxygen bottles and quasi guided expeditions to the world's second highest mountain. Yet despite the spread of com mercialism, this Karakoram giant remains among the most hazardous of the 8000 meter peaks. During the early days of K2's climbing history, its sustained steepness, objective hazards and

16 - On Belay Albert Leichtfried remembers the aurora borealis above Norway's Lyngen Alps and the beauty of climbing in a place where most first ascents happen unrecorded

he was a twenty-year-old sport climber overawed by the shadowed granite and eerie wildness of the North Walls of Squamish

as the saying goes

more than 50 testers pored over 350 products at our weeklong stay at Powder Mountain

but with effective innovations from the world's top manufacturers

we bring you a film about expression

There is no sidecountry

Off Belay From the solo first ascent of the southwest pillar of the Petit Dru (3733m) to the first ascent of Gasherbrum IV (7925m)

Deliciously deep January blower to April corn

and the fresh altimeters he'd replace it with

What do they all have in common

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