Alpinist Magazine Issue 63 - Autumn 2018 Prints & Posters

Alpinist Magazine Issue 63 - Autumn 2018 Prints & PostersIn Alpinist 63, youll find the second and final part of our series on the history of Nanda Devi and nearby peaks in Indias Garhwal Himalaya. Pete Takedas effort to trace a mysterious rumor involving a covert CIA operation on the sacred mountain known as the headwaters of the Ganges, as well as to investigate expeditions environmental effects from 1940 through the Cold War to the present day, proves nearly as monumental as Nanda Devi herself. Included

LOCAL LEGEND: TOM KIMBROUGH

All That Is Gold Amid the adventures of fatherhood and the terrors of "Scottish full conditions

boards and bindings from this season's lineup

Jeff Apple Benowitz recalls the name of the route that defined his scraggly youth

Inside we've gone deep

69 and get ready to buy your next plane ticket

[Photo] Eric Mickelson

Tested: Santa Cruz Hightower 3

“Feel the flow” is the motto for Hans Rey and Brian Lopes as they feast on the Tutti Frutti Epic

and an immense high-altitude plateau

visiting climbers strove to find ways to get closer to a 7816-meter summit that gleamed beyond a ring of seemingly impassable obstacles

Throughout each profile