Alpinist Magazine Issue 86 | Summer 2024

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Alpinist Magazine Issue 86 | Summer 2024Cover: Jim Donini assesses a route on Mt. Barrill in Alaskas Ruth Gorge. [Photo] Greg Crouch Features A Tiny Portion of Infinite Time Christophe Ogier writes about how a special partnership with Jrme Sullivan and Victor Saucde enabled them to complete the first ascent of Pumari Chhish East (ca. 6850m) in Pakistan, in June 2022. Their climb was recognized with a Piolet dOr in 2023, a moment that marked a point of change in their lives. In this story,

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

But that path has brought vitality to one of ski mountaineering's most atypical characters who

wild antics and eccentric personalities—from the legendary conflicts between the rule-making Appies and the rollicking Vulgarians to the stylists of the clean-climbing revolution and the age of Lycra

If you're like most mountain bikers

Cameron Burns profles this generous teacher

with more than 400 kilometers of groomed trails among four major Nordic ski areas and several smaller ones

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Sarah-Jane Dobner reaches for the buzzer

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