Alpinist Magazine Issue 44 - Autumn 2013 Print or Digital?:Print Issue Rainier Falling Down

Rainier Falling Down

In the process of trying to stay alive

Dana Foster

they're only getting better

the Romanian alpinist recalls false starts

Alpinist Magazine Issue 44 - Autumn 2013 Print or Digital?:Print Issue Rainier Falling DownBeyond 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