I have read about this on quite a few different sites and have yet to post it due to the fact that i just can’t get my self to actually accept it. Aplinist magazine is calling it quits. This is by far the best climbing / mountaineering publications that will exist in my life time. I will miss looking at the thin red lines marking the different routes up mountains that i dream of one day seeing. Reading over the trip reports and hoping to take my climbing to a level that i can experience half of their adventure.
In the farewell letter, I think that Christian Beckwith says it the best.
“One more metaphor. Alpinist was not a standard route to magazine publishing. It was a new route: a subscriber-based publication, big and bold and beautiful. In 1979, as George Lowe described in Issue 15, he and four partners climbed more than 100 pitches on the north ridge of Latok I only to descend short of the top when one of his partners became ill. Though they failed to reach the summit, Lowe calls it his best climb. Alpinist was our Latok, and you were our partners. This was our best climb. Thanks for joining us on the adventure.”
Such a great leader in good quality publishing will be missed and i will keep my issues on the book shelves so that i and many others can continue to enjoy them.
To everyone at Alpinist thank you for doing what you have done and the inspiation that you have provided.
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