Alpinist

After he graduated from college in 1996, Jimmy Chin hit the road, planning to climb and ski for a year before heading to... Read more

In this episode, Alpinist Digital Editor Derek Franz interviews Jeff Achey, a prolific first ascensionist and author who... Read more

By 1965, at age 22, David Roberts had witnessed three fatal accidents in the mountains. Over 50 years since, Roberts has... Read more

Climber, father and house painter Chris Kalous launched the climbing podcast The Enormocast in 2011. In this episode, Al... Read more

“We need to acknowledge mountaineering as a profoundly social pursuit…. I strongly resist the idea that there is a kind ... Read more

In 1969, at the age of nine, Barry Blanchard sat on a Greyhound bus as a young woman read to him from the pages of the ... Read more

In the 1990s, after more than a decade of climbing in the Sierra Nevada, Jim Herrington embarked on a journey to photogr... Read more

“If someone is raised to spend time in the outdoors it will be something that they do without question; they won’t wonde... Read more

In 2003 Nick Bullock quit his steady job as an instructor in the Prison Service to climb and write full-time. His 2016 a... Read more

“We all have emotions that eventually bring us to self-awareness, if we let them. Beneath every curmudgeonly old soul is... Read more

Author and mountaineer David Roberts reads his essay "Death and Climbing," which first appeared in the winter 2016 issue... Read more

Perhaps no other writer has explored Cold War and post-Soviet era mountaineering more than Bernadette McDonald has. In t... Read more

Chris Weidner began climbing as a teenager in the Pacific Northwest and is no stranger to being pinned on the summit of ... Read more

At altitude, many mountain communities are already experiencing the severe consequences of climate change. Climbers have... Read more

In this episode, Gabriel Ellison-Scowcroft shares a story about a winter attempt of Sisnaajini (Blanca Peak) with Len Ne... Read more