Alpinist Magazine Issue 84 | Winter 2023 Print or Digital?:Print Issue Looking back on that summer

Looking back on that summer

Forty-two years after Cesare Maestri bolted the Compressor Route of Cerro Torre

000 feet of granite and beer-wielding Valkyries

Trail Anatomy: Downhill Progression in Tennessee

Even the trail crew stopped tallying the berms past 230

Alpinist Magazine Issue 84 | Winter 2023 Print or Digital?:Print Issue Looking back on that summerCover: Patrick Lalonde peers through the narrow exit moves of Tuts Thumb (WI4+) in the Katahdin massifs North Basin, Baxter State Park, Maine. [Photo] Brent Doscher Features Mountain Profile: Katahdin Nestled into the woods of northern Maine, beyond the reaches of roads, Katahdin rises out of the 2,200 mile long chain of Appalachian Mountains. Its weathered cliffs of pink and grey granite have inspired painters, poets and climbers for centuries.