Alpinist Magazine Issue 55 - Autumn 2016 BCMFEATURED 2017 LIGHT TOURING GEAR

2017 LIGHT TOURING GEAR

but nearly 100 jackets

Michael Hjelm Less and Less Alone - Alex Honnold Free soloing is often called the purest form of climbing: an intense

great century of Riccardo Cassin

Mizugaki—that turned out to be the hardest multipitch trad climb in Japan

Alpinist Magazine Issue 55 - Autumn 2016 BCMFEATURED 2017 LIGHT TOURING GEARFeatures Mountain Profile Not far from the famous Tetons, much of the Wind River Range of Wyoming remains relatively quiet, small figures of human travelers easily lost within its intricate corners and vast massifs. Joe Kelsey, great chronicler of these mountains, once wrote: "There isn't much reason to make the effort to visit the Wind Rivers unless you believe in somethingsomething encompassed, however imprecisely, by the term wilderness." Paula