Alpinist Magazine Issue 84 | Winter 2023 Print or Digital?:Print Issue pens a personal letter to

pens a personal letter to one of the Cerro Torre bolt choppers—his son

Looking back on that summer

powder snow

Even the trail crew stopped tallying the berms past 230

Forty-two years after Cesare Maestri bolted the Compressor Route of Cerro Torre

Alpinist Magazine Issue 84 | Winter 2023 Print or Digital?:Print Issue pens a personal letter toCover: Patrick Lalonde peers through the narrow exit moves of Tuts Thumb (WI4+) in the Katahdin massifs North Basin, Baxter State Park, Maine. [Photo] Brent Doscher Features Mountain Profile: Katahdin Nestled into the woods of northern Maine, beyond the reaches of roads, Katahdin rises out of the 2,200 mile long chain of Appalachian Mountains. Its weathered cliffs of pink and grey granite have inspired painters, poets and climbers for centuries.