Alpinist Magazine Issue 43 - Summer 2013 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) OFF THE STEEP END

OFF THE STEEP END

The Climbing Life Mark C

Brigid Mander travels to Norway to discover the cheapest local's secret ever

punishable with jail time and a fat fine

Joe Whittle also reclaims—and rejoices in— his own ancestral connection with the land during a trip in the Wal'wá·maXs (Wallowa Mountains)

Alpinist Magazine Issue 43 - Summer 2013 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) OFF THE STEEP ENDThe irrepressible Tami Knight highlights the climbs, characters and (occasionally substance fueled) mayhem that have given the cliffs of Squamish not one, but three or four or five Golden Ages in this issue's Crag Profile. Voytek Kurtyka gives a rare interviewnot about the climbs that make him a legendary figure in the history of Himalayan alpine style climbing, but about perfectionism, love, hell and freedom. After wrangling his roommates, Jrme