Alpinist Magazine Issue 55 - Autumn 2016 BCMFEATURED Dana Foster

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Alpinist Magazine Issue 55 - Autumn 2016 BCMFEATURED Dana FosterFeatures Mountain Profile Not far from the famous Tetons, much of the Wind River Range of Wyoming remains relatively quiet, small figures of human travelers easily lost within its intricate corners and vast massifs. Joe Kelsey, great chronicler of these mountains, once wrote: "There isn't much reason to make the effort to visit the Wind Rivers unless you believe in somethingsomething encompassed, however imprecisely, by the term wilderness." Paula