Alpinist Magazine Issue 45 - Winter 2013-14 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) Patricia Deavoll Off Belay On

Patricia Deavoll Off Belay On the 30th anniversary of the first ascent of Latok IV

Bud Light's ski-town takeover

head out to the edges of Earth in Kyrgyzstan or check out penguins and powder runs on the Frozen Continent

sacred and imaginary spaces

Combining rational and emotional decision making

Alpinist Magazine Issue 45 - Winter 2013-14 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) Patricia Deavoll Off Belay OnFeatures A Reasonable Risk? As Raphael Slawinski approached Pakistan's unclimbed K6 West (7040m), the aftermath of the terror attacks at Nanga Parbat's Diamir Base Camp, as well as the objective hazards of the mountain itself, forced him and his partner Ian Welsted to re examine their understanding of risk. Edges of Land and Light In recent years, Jon Griffith has made an alpine style ascent of the East Face of Piergiorgio and a solo linkup of the