Alpinist Magazine Issue 59 - Autumn 2017 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF)

Alpinist Magazine Issue 59 - Autumn 2017 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF)Features 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

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