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Re: [unrooted] Why you don't subscribe to ALPINIST:
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yanqui
Feb 19, 2007, 2:28 PM
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unrooted wrote: I've been told that changes to Alpinist are being looked at, what changes would most influence you to subscribe?
First off the title is way stupid, since a considerable amount of the content is about, for example, climbing in Patagonia, which, I'm sorry to say, just ain't got nothing to do with the alpes.
And this whole myth that they're trying to create about pure elitist trad climbing and old school alpinism seems pretty silly. I once knew a real old school 'alpinist' and that guy's idea of 'purity' included yarding up a ladder of fixed pins in to order to avoid struggling on 5.10d free moves. How 'pure' is that?
But as far as I'm concerned, the bottom line is they need more articles about average middle age climbers who mostly boulder and sport climb. After, we have about as much to do with climbing in the alpes as the rest of the stuff that gets published in there.
All this doesn't change my opinion that Alpinist is perhaps the most interesting climbing magazine being published now.
(This post was edited by yanqui on Feb 19, 2007, 2:30 PM)
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Post edited by yanqui
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