Alpinist Magazine Issue 89 | Spring 2025 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) Boots & Bindings

Boots & Bindings

Tested: Norco Fluid FS1 29

The Climbing Life Jerry Auld bets with ravens

poles and children's equipment packaged into our fourth-annual Gear Guide special feature

Because when darkness settles on the backcountry

Alpinist Magazine Issue 89 | Spring 2025 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) Boots & BindingsCover: Mary Catherine Eden squeezes up Gabriel (5. 13), an offwidth route in Zion National Park. Keisuke Mizuno Features In the Shadow of the Grand The world renowned alpinist Michael Gardner guided Brendan Jones up the Grand Teton in 2022. The two kept in touch with plans for Jones to write a magazine profile about Gardners wild and unusual life. Meanwhile, Gardner continued to climb new lines, ski first descents and set speed records on Denalis