Alpinist Magazine Issue 52 - Winter 2015 Backcountry

Alpinist Magazine Issue 52 - Winter 2015 BackcountryFeatures Freedom in the Hills For decades, female alpinists have made extraordinary ascents from remote big walls to storm swept peaks, yet their numbers have remained relatively low. Charlotte Austin explores some of the barriers of the past and the potential for the future. Slvia Vidal, Jarmila Tyrril, Pat Deavoll, Ines Papert, Jewell Lund, Lee Myoung hee, Kei Taniguchi and Natalia Martnez share ascents and ideas that have inspired them in recent

with the wall of Arctic Discipline (aka: "A Pair of Jacks

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Stone and Sky Much of the world's great climbing literature describes grand adventures on big

Dick Dorworth has skied and climbed in Europe

skin and get dirty in it 'til the snow melts

Photographer Ryan Creary gets a dose of humility while picking his way down the endless granite domes of "Slab Heaven" above Powell River in British Columbia

" John Evans

no matter the reason for or method of traveling the fabled Himalayan trekking routes

Over the decades

was more profound that any list of achievements can express

Joseph Puryear New Sharp End

With 294 participants—of which 18 percent were female—students logged 3