Alpinist Magazine Issue 30 - Spring 2010 Alpinist 66

Alpinist Magazine Issue 30 - Spring 2010 Alpinist 66Profile Mountain Profile: Latok To many climbers, the name "Latok" conjures up one of the world's most famous unclimbed routes. But the massif contains more than just the North Ridge of Latok I: a series of spires like "a row of El Capitans," and a history of varied dreams from the alpinists who have attemptedand sometimes even summitedthese walls. Conrad Anker explores the blanks on the map, while Don Arturo Bergamaschi, Jeff Lowe, Tsuneo Shigehiro,

"Matt Samet recalls his first solo climb— and near-brush with death

Letters Of missed opportunities

with the complete story of these mountains

Skiing is going to the dogs

Minnesota's Bearskin Lodge is more than roaring fires and four-star food

Today he is a reporter and regular columnist for the Idaho Mountain Express in Ketchum

finding new lines in this pristine

no longer just skied by athletes training with the Bridger Ski Foundation

To make the case

riding old heavy Schwinns in places they were never meant to be has as much appeal today as it did back then

to generations of prolific soloists such as the eccentric Norman Clyde

Whatever the reason