Alpinist Magazine Issue 48 - Autumn-Winter 2014 Print or Digital?:Print Issue unplanned walls—and the intense

unplanned walls—and the intense

alpinist Anna Pfaff wanders off the maps and into unexpected adventures

Vittorio Sella

and where he learned to tolerate suffering on epic backcountry missions

Alpinist Magazine Issue 48 - Autumn-Winter 2014 Print or Digital?:Print Issue unplanned walls—and the intenseFeatures Mountain Profile In his Sierra guidebook The Good, the Great, and the Awesome, Peter Croft calls the Palisades "the most mountainous mountains in the Sierra Nevada." Half hidden behind foothills, these spiny 13,000 to 14,000 foot peaks have allured decades of alpinists, eccentrics and wanderers. Doug Robinson follows a "trail of mentors" that leads from the early mountaineers of the Sierra Club, to generations of prolific soloists such as the