Alpinist Magazine Issue 85 | Spring 2024 Print or Digital?:Print Issue THE SECRET LIFE OF GLEN

THE SECRET LIFE OF GLEN PLAKE

Death of the sidecountry

On Belay In 2012 Ralf Gantzhorn

Thickly wooded

Little did he know that the writings of this nineteenth-century Danish existentialist would become his guide as he struggles to understand the dilemmas of the modern climbing world and the darkness in his imagination

Alpinist Magazine Issue 85 | Spring 2024 Print or Digital?:Print Issue THE SECRET LIFE OF GLENCover: Jackson Marvell climbs the north facing headwall of Jannu (7710m) last October during the first ascent of Roundtrip Ticket (AI5+ M7, 2700m). [Photo] Matt Cornell Features Via Sedna Against the odds, a team of eight women who speak different languages coalesced to overcome months of stormy seas on a fifteen meter sailboat and climb a new route on Northern Sun Spire in Greenlandwith only three days of clear weather for the ascent and descent.