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

Alpinist Magazine Issue 89 | Spring 2025 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF)Cover: 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

En route to a dreamy pillow line

And at 17 and 16

Christian Schlesener and Mark Richey fill in their lines

Photo Finish

When a private buyer was poised to end 85 years of skiing history at Marshall Mountain in Missoula

This has led some to claim that the cross country sprint started on American snow

FROM GRANITE TO GRIZZLIES

2015 SKI TEST & GEAR GUIDE

Poles—adjustable and not—skins and all the items to keep you comfortable on the uptrack

That cover illustration is now available as limited edition 8x10 prints

with Steve "Doom" Fassbinder | Illustrations by Jon Bailey

As he returns over the years