It marries beautiful pictures and style with great writing about climbing - if National Geographic magazine mixed genes with Climbing and Wallpaper, Alpinist would probably be the final product...
Inside its glossy pages, you'll find an array of:- Amazing writing - about adventures taken; about far away places; about hallucinations encountered in the wilderness; about NOT climbing, etc... - Gorgeous, stunning, beautiful photos- Information you never knew you needed to know ('Annapurna III?? I didn't even know there was an Annapurna Jr!')- The occasional poem and/or New Yorker-esque cartoon.
And they do it all with elegance and enough humor that you want to keep on reading! Case in point: a reader accuses Alpinist of inserting "left wing, liberal political views" into their magazine and asserts that "GWB... loves you because you are an American." The Editors note aftewards that, "We assume that...'GWB' means Great White Brother."
----------That being said, you probably don't want to cancel your subscription to Climbing or Rock & Ice. Alpinist is only published quarterly, and I can't quite imagine them putting out an annual equipment guide anytime soon. The price tag is also heftier than I like paying... But all in all, I think it is a fabulous publication and worth every penny. And it makes an awesome gift!
Inside its glossy pages, you'll find an array of:- Amazing writing - about adventures taken; about far away places; about hallucinations encountered in the wilderness; about NOT climbing, etc... - Gorgeous, stunning, beautiful photos- Information you never knew you needed to know ('Annapurna III?? I didn't even know there was an Annapurna Jr!') - The occasional poem and/or New Yorker-esque cartoon.
----------That being said, you probably don't want to cancel your subscription to Climbing or Rock & Ice. Alpinist is only published quarterly, and I can't quite imagine them putting out an annual equipment guide anytime soon. The price tag is also heftier than I like paying... But all in all, I think it is a fabulous publication and worth every penny. They make awesome gifts too!
