Alpinist Magazine Issue 45 - Winter 2013-14 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) head out to the edges

head out to the edges of Earth in Kyrgyzstan or check out penguins and powder runs on the Frozen Continent

Bud Light's ski-town takeover

Pushing luck in Colorado's Elk Mountains

but three or four or five Golden Ages in this issue's Crag Profile

the very name of which means "gap

Alpinist Magazine Issue 45 - Winter 2013-14 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) head out to the edgesFeatures A Reasonable Risk? As Raphael Slawinski approached Pakistan's unclimbed K6 West (7040m), the aftermath of the terror attacks at Nanga Parbat's Diamir Base Camp, as well as the objective hazards of the mountain itself, forced him and his partner Ian Welsted to re examine their understanding of risk. Edges of Land and Light In recent years, Jon Griffith has made an alpine style ascent of the East Face of Piergiorgio and a solo linkup of the