Alpinist Magazine Issue 89 | Spring 2025 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) HAUTE EXPECTATIONS

HAUTE EXPECTATIONS

He was the first to free climb the route ground up without rappelling from the top to practice any of the cruxes beforehand

poles and children's equipment packaged into our fourth-annual Gear Guide special feature

mechanical engineer Dave Weagle finds the barrier to fun and starts sketching and prototyping until he finds a better solution—whether it be designing a chain guard

workmanlike spirit to its eclectic trail scene

Alpinist Magazine Issue 89 | Spring 2025 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) HAUTE EXPECTATIONSCover: Mary Catherine Eden squeezes up Gabriel (5. 13), an offwidth route in Zion National Park. Keisuke Mizuno Features In the Shadow of the Grand The world renowned alpinist Michael Gardner guided Brendan Jones up the Grand Teton in 2022. The two kept in touch with plans for Jones to write a magazine profile about Gardners wild and unusual life. Meanwhile, Gardner continued to climb new lines, ski first descents and set speed records on Denalis