Alpinist Magazine Issue 59 - Autumn 2017 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) It's all fun and games

It's all fun and games until someone gets dead

Combining rational and emotional decision making

sacred and imaginary peaks

The range's history is intertwined with that of its best-known town

PoleClinometer can take it

Alpinist Magazine Issue 59 - Autumn 2017 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) It's all fun and gamesFeatures Mountain Profile: La Meije, Part I "La Meije exerts over all who see it from a distance or who approach it a veritable 'magnetism,'" Roger Canac wrote in 2007. Considered the "Matterhorn" of the Massif des crins, la Meije was the last of the great Alps to be summitedby an all French team in 1877. Erin Smart explores the early history of this long "impossible mountain" in southeast France, while Claude Gardien and Paula Wright profile a few of