Alpinist Magazine Issue 57 - Spring 2017 Print or Digital?:Print Issue

Alpinist Magazine Issue 57 - Spring 2017 Print or Digital?:Print IssueFeatures Mountain Profile: Jannu, the Sleeping Warrior In Alpinist 24, the great Russian alpinist Valery Babanov declared, "Any ascent of Jannu is a leap into the unknown, and the unpredictability of the result grows geometrically with the increasing difficulty of the line. Any path to Jannu would require the surpassing of ourselves." On the Nepali side of the Kangchenjunga Himal, near the border with India, this 7710 meter summit remains one of the

As Ian Parnell explains

Thanks to Scotland’s “right to roam” law

Nanda Devi East and Nanda Kot

Contributors The Editors Letters

Peter Haan Full Value After growing up together

Washington and Utah stand out among all other mountain states for the way in which their backcountry scenes have changed over the last decade or so

disprove the current theory on the formation of the Alaskan Range

grew up in Utah as wild

Letters There are bold readers and there are old readers—and then there are some old

A re-examination

and each operates differently

On tour with the streaker who has earned 'em and turned 'em every month for 20 years straight