Alpinist Magazine Issue 66 - Summer 2019 Issue Trauma in Idaho

Trauma in Idaho

yet he remains haunted by a five-pitch rock route back home in South Korea

A note from the editor

Uptrack struggles in Rogers Pass

Then a postcard arrived

Alpinist Magazine Issue 66 - Summer 2019 Issue Trauma in IdahoFeaturing Yosemite climber Lonnie Kauk (the son of legendary climber Ron Kauk and Ahwahneechee descendant and basketmaker Lucy Parker). In an oral history, friends and family join Lonnie in narrating his journey from growing up beneath the granite cliffs of Tu Tok A Nu La (El Capitan) to seeking to honor his ancestors through his first redpoint ascent of his fathers Magic Line, considered one of the most difficult single pitch trad climbs in the