Alpinist Magazine Issue 78 - Summer 2022 Alpinist Clint Helander and Andres Marin

Clint Helander and Andres Marin completed the first ascent of the east face of Golgotha (8

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Megan Michelson and friends finally make it to Canada’s Hilda Hut

Alpinist Magazine Issue 78 - Summer 2022 Alpinist Clint Helander and Andres MarinCover: Nikita Balabanov, during the first ascent of the Southeast Ridge of Annapurna III (7555m), at 6500 metersthe high point of all previous attempts. In 2012 in Alpinist 39, Ed Douglas wrote of the then unfinished route: In Herman Melvilles novel Moby Dick, Captain Ahab heaped all the malevolence of the world and his own bitter nature on the white whale, yet you couldnt make that mistake with this mountain. Melvilles fish was blood and guts.