Alpinist Magazine Issue 73 - Spring 2021 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue Only (PDF) On Belay Growing up near

On Belay Growing up near the Picket Range of the North Cascades

photographer Ming Poon talks mentorship and learning from mistakes on the road to artistic success

isn’t even a portfolio of my best work (though I am proud of many of these pictures)

cross country skiers got out more frequently

Alpinist Magazine Issue 73 - Spring 2021 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue Only (PDF) On Belay Growing up nearCover: Of her portrait of Tom Hornbein in 2011, photographer Claudia Camila Lopez says: It is said don't meet your hero, much less let him trick you into trying on his Everest red jacket; if you must, don't press said jacket against your face corroborating the indelible and eternally defining mountaineering smell. No regrets. I am, forever, under the spell of Senor Tom! [Photo] Claudia Camila Lopez Features What's Past Is Prologue On May 22, 1963, Tom