• Greg Child: Trango Tower - Obsession is a neurosis climbers know well, but some know it better than others, and some mountains bring it out in singular ways. Pakistan's Trango Tower is one such mountain, as author Greg Child can attest. Martin Boysen, Michel Piola, Voytek Kurtyka, Kurt Albert, Takeyasu Minamiura and Jared Ogden regale us with thier adventures on the shining phantom of the Karakoram.



• Clay Wadman: The Art of the Topo - Most topos offer simple lines and symbols on a printed page. For climbing artists, however, route depiction is only the beginning. Clay Wadman, Michel Piola, Philippe Barthez, Elio Orlandi and Gardner Heaton present some of the finest topo art in climbing.



• Eneko Pou and Iker Pou: The Brotherhood - - For two young brothers from the Basque country, it was either go professional or give up climbing in favor of other careers. Their deliberations on the matter overlooked one thing: the strain this choice would put on the most important relationship of all.



• Armand Ballart: A Climber's Tale - From the conglomerate of Montserrat to the fabled limestone of the Dolomites, Armand Ballart has devoted himself to an aesthetic life. Now he recollects his version of the craft: ground up, in the footsteps of the masters.



• Shull Harrison: The Eyes Have It - Climbers everywhere know that onsight is where the action is. As it so happens, the same is true for some photographers. A celebration of a particularly challenging focus.



• Steve "Roadie" Seats: The Adventures of Hardy Grimper - Pops has Kate and Bridget by the short hairs, Forrest is at the end of his rope, and Alpha Ranger is lurking in the shadows. If this were a movie, do you think we could get Travolta to play Hardy?



• Stephan Venables: Himalaya Alpine-Style—Ten Years On - In 1995, Stephen Venables finished Andy Fanshawe's masterpiece, a celebration of all things bold and beautiful in the greatest of the Great Ranges. Ten years later, he combination climber-porn/bible of world alpinists has influenced the best climbers in the world—and inspired a decade of armchair alpinism.
  






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12 December 2007/ Fire At Alpinist Warehouse

--All Inventory Lost--

--Subscriptions and Company Operations to Continue Without Interruption--

On December 5, at approximately 11 a.m. CST, an Oregon, Illinois, warehouse that contained all of Alpinist Magazine's inventory--back issues, hats, shirts, water bottles, stickers, coffee mugs--burned to the ground. Nothing was salvaged.

According to news reports, a forklift operator backed into a gas line in the warehouse, which was owned by the Kable News Company, a fulfillment company that provides subscription services for magazines such as Alpinist. The forklift punctured a gas line; the escaping gas was then ignited by a nearby space heater. The warehouse's twenty employees escaped without injury, but by the time the 200-plus firefighters arrived from twenty area fire departments to combat the blaze, there was little they could do but let the two-story building burn to the ground.

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