Alpinist Magazine Issue 31 - Summer 2010 Prints & Posters Editor's Note

Editor's Note

Ethan Newman recounts scenes from the human history

FROM TRACKS TO TREADS

An Uphill Battle

Acknowledgements

Alpinist Magazine Issue 31 - Summer 2010 Prints & Posters Editor's NoteProfile Mountain Profile: Logan Massif When the great Canadian alpinist Hans Gmoser first saw the Logan massif from a distance, he exclaimed, "I wonder if I, if my friends are strong enough to climb such a monster!" Rising from one of the world's largest nonpolar icecaps, with 13,500 feet of vertical relief, over a dozen peaks and subpeaks, countless ridges and faces, and an immense high altitude plateau, Logan is more like a separate planet than a