Alpinist Magazine Issue 48 - Autumn-Winter 2014 Print or Digital?:Print Issue James Edward Mills looks into

James Edward Mills looks into some of the reasons behind what he calls "the adventure gap

On Belay After weeks of climbing in the Neacola Mountains

and where he learned to tolerate suffering on epic backcountry missions

five Japanese alpinists upturned the concept of enchainments in the Alaska Range forever

Vittorio Sella

Alpinist Magazine Issue 48 - Autumn-Winter 2014 Print or Digital?:Print Issue James Edward Mills looks intoFeatures Mountain Profile In his Sierra guidebook The Good, the Great, and the Awesome, Peter Croft calls the Palisades "the most mountainous mountains in the Sierra Nevada." Half hidden behind foothills, these spiny 13,000 to 14,000 foot peaks have allured decades of alpinists, eccentrics and wanderers. Doug Robinson follows a "trail of mentors" that leads from the early mountaineers of the Sierra Club, to generations of prolific soloists such as the