Alpinist Magazine Issue 44 - Autumn 2013 Print or Digital?:Print Issue massive avalanches began nailing the

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Alpinist Magazine Issue 44 - Autumn 2013 Print or Digital?:Print Issue massive avalanches began nailing theBeyond the crowds on Vinson's normal route, much of the Sentinel Range of Antarctica is a quiet fortress of precise geometry that remains scarcely visited. Yet despite the storms and bitter cold, a few climberslike Mugs Stump and Erhard Loretanhave ventured up big routes in this unearthly landscape, usually in alpine style, often unheralded and alone. After years of mapping the region, Damien Gildea pieces together the history in this issue Mountain