Alpinist Magazine Issue 46 - Spring 2014 Movie

Alpinist Magazine Issue 46 - Spring 2014 MovieFeatures Mountain Profile: Darran Mountains, New Zealand For more than 100 years, small bands of climbers have struggled through rain soaked forests to reach the great ice and rock lines of the Darran Mountains in New Zealand. And yet, even today, many of the vast walls remain largely unknown. Paul Hersey sifts through the rich stories of this oft forgotten range, from the early days of Maori exploration to New Zealand alpinist Guy McKinnon's 2013

Ming Poon and Andrew McLean skin through the demilitarized Line of Control to learn more

Men’s Journal

FIGURES 11: GEAR OF THE YEARS

An Uphill Battle

HIGHER LEARNING

Government fund bc skiing New Avy Danger Scale The Lost Range of Antarctic Mountains After controversy dissolves

linking earth and heaven

Erin Smart explores the early history of this long "impossible mountain" in southeast France

Max Odell finds a rime-ice wonderland on the seven summits of the Mushroom Traverse (Page 46)

plus an exploration of Japan’s rise to backcountry-skiing prominence

whose memory still haunts the climbing community

" Ed Cooper