Alpinist Magazine Issue 73 - Spring 2021 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue Only (PDF) photographer Ming Poon talks mentorship

photographer Ming Poon talks mentorship and learning from mistakes on the road to artistic success

On Belay Growing up near the Picket Range of the North Cascades

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Pete Takeda pursues what he believes to be "the greatest unclimbed offwidth that no one's heard of

On the cover: Jessie Diggins trains on a public track in Röhrmoos bei Tiefenbach

Alpinist Magazine Issue 73 - Spring 2021 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue Only (PDF) photographer Ming Poon talks mentorshipCover: Of her portrait of Tom Hornbein in 2011, photographer Claudia Camila Lopez says: It is said don't meet your hero, much less let him trick you into trying on his Everest red jacket; if you must, don't press said jacket against your face corroborating the indelible and eternally defining mountaineering smell. No regrets. I am, forever, under the spell of Senor Tom! [Photo] Claudia Camila Lopez Features What's Past Is Prologue On May 22, 1963, Tom