Alpinist Magazine Issue 78 - Summer 2022 Alpinist Fractured fibulas and self-rescue in

Fractured fibulas and self-rescue in Lake Tahoe

Doug McCarty and Brian Leo completed the first winter ascent of the North Face of 12

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Moving back and forth between the United States and India while growing up

Alpinist Magazine Issue 78 - Summer 2022 Alpinist Fractured fibulas and self-rescue inCover: 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.