Backcountry Magazine December 2012 - Photo Annual Bags featuring a hand sketched carabiner

featuring a hand sketched carabiner on one side and Alpinist logo on the other

The Climbing Life Nick Bullock writes the soundtrack of the mountains

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Hayden Kennedy writes of an expedition to the Kishtwar Himalaya in India

Backcountry Magazine December 2012 - Photo Annual Bags featuring a hand sketched carabinerFEATURES Sky People and Powder Eighty miles south of Wyoming's Teton Mountains are the Wind Rivers, a range seldom visited in winter but rumored to be a couloir skiing paradise. Last May, Brigid Mander and crew left spicy spring conditions in Jackson for the Winds where they found the skier's Valhalla they were expecting. That is until the Shoshone Sky People expelling them with wolverines, whiteouts and midwinter conditions. The Life and Death a