Alpinist Magazine Issue 52 - Winter 2015 Print or Digital?:Print IssueFeatures Freedom in the Hills For decades, female alpinists have made extraordinary ascents from remote big walls to storm swept peaks, yet their numbers have remained relatively low. Charlotte Austin explores some of the barriers of the past and the potential for the future. Slvia Vidal, Jarmila Tyrril, Pat Deavoll, Ines Papert, Jewell Lund, Lee Myoung hee, Kei Taniguchi and Natalia Martnez share ascents and ideas that have inspired them in recent
Derek Franz finds both doors and mirrors in the cliffs
Each manufacturer now has a race-oriented version of their skin-skis—and we liked them all
David Stevenson encounters a startling omen: a raven at the door
they encounter a realm so vast and unfamiliar they need all four of their imaginations to tell even part of the tale
BACKSTORY: READER ESSAY
STRAIGHT LINES: UPBRINGING
Those who take and those who leave
800- foot wall to take part in a major rescue attempt
Inside NASA's mission to measure snowfall
Tool User In which our managing editor presents: George Finch and his amazing feathered dream coat
the country's most isolated valley
Hayden Kennedy writes of an expedition to the Kishtwar Himalaya in India
