Alpinist Magazine Issue 31 - Summer 2010 Prints & Posters High Fives from everyone at

High Fives from everyone at Backcountry for your support

Editor's Note

and the boots were lighter than ever

Acknowledgements

Ethan Newman recounts scenes from the human history

Alpinist Magazine Issue 31 - Summer 2010 Prints & Posters High Fives from everyone atProfile Mountain Profile: Logan Massif When the great Canadian alpinist Hans Gmoser first saw the Logan massif from a distance, he exclaimed, "I wonder if I, if my friends are strong enough to climb such a monster!" Rising from one of the world's largest nonpolar icecaps, with 13,500 feet of vertical relief, over a dozen peaks and subpeaks, countless ridges and faces, and an immense high altitude plateau, Logan is more like a separate planet than a