Alpinist Magazine Issue 27 - Summer 2009

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Alpinist Magazine Issue 27 - Summer 2009Profile Mt. Everest Part II: 1963 2009 Before Into Thin Air, small bands of friends quietly experimented with fast and light, technical and oxygenless, in Everest's hidden places. Ed Webster and Katie Ives uncover the mountain's lesser known modern adventure climbing history, while Doug Scott, Andrej Stremfelj, Pavel Shabalin and Dawa Steven Sherpa offer their own stories of "creative mountaineering" on the world's highest peak. Ed Webster and Katie

`Nuff said

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

climbing huge alpine routes in minimalist style

Stephen Venables Features Content

on one of the world's most dangerous mountains

EPIC DESCENTS AND UNSKIED FACES

Mike Westmacott

000-meter Superman

Ski historian John Fry gets this

we investigate Bolton

Two years later

Liberty aluminum water bottle with embossed Alpinist logo and artwork by PJ Dedi