Alpinist Magazine Issue 45 - Winter 2013-14 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) Biff speaks from experience

Biff speaks from experience

pens a personal letter to one of the Cerro Torre bolt choppers—his son

Combining rational and emotional decision making

sacred and imaginary spaces

Alpinist Magazine Issue 45 - Winter 2013-14 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) Biff speaks from experienceFeatures A Reasonable Risk? As Raphael Slawinski approached Pakistan's unclimbed K6 West (7040m), the aftermath of the terror attacks at Nanga Parbat's Diamir Base Camp, as well as the objective hazards of the mountain itself, forced him and his partner Ian Welsted to re examine their understanding of risk. Edges of Land and Light In recent years, Jon Griffith has made an alpine style ascent of the East Face of Piergiorgio and a solo linkup of the