Alpinist Magazine Issue 54 - Summer 2016 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) the Hokkaido Backcountry Club received

the Hokkaido Backcountry Club received permission to operate heli trips on Japan's northern island

Before pondering that question

Rachel Fixsen hears snakes in the wall

the Sentinel Range is a quiet fortress of precise geometry and immense glittering faces

And what does it mean for the upcoming season

Alpinist Magazine Issue 54 - Summer 2016 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) the Hokkaido Backcountry Club receivedAs the deadline approached for this issues cover, we reached out to Jeremy Collins to see if he might have an idea. He recounts: I quickly doodled something imagined: Trango Towers meets Baffin Island meets Cirque of the Unclimbables. A dream valley. Then I set my tool against the art to show scale and its simple handcrafted approach. And thus the cover was bornfast and light, alpine style. Jeremys illustrations grace both the cover and this issues