Alpinist Magazine Issue 78 - Summer 2022 Alpinist Mountain Profile: The Aiguille du

Mountain Profile: The Aiguille du Dru Part II (1955–2015) "It seemed built to perpetuate our dreams"—thus Guido Magnone described the Aiguille du Dru in The West Face

Fractured fibulas and self-rescue in Lake Tahoe

The hippies move in

the light and contrast

David Smart

Alpinist Magazine Issue 78 - Summer 2022 Alpinist Mountain Profile: The Aiguille duCover: Nikita Balabanov, during the first ascent of the Southeast Ridge of Annapurna III (7555m), at 6500 metersthe high point of all previous attempts. In 2012 in Alpinist 39, Ed Douglas wrote of the then unfinished route: In Herman Melvilles novel Moby Dick, Captain Ahab heaped all the malevolence of the world and his own bitter nature on the white whale, yet you couldnt make that mistake with this mountain. Melvilles fish was blood and guts.