Alpinist Magazine Issue 89 | Spring 2025 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) mechanical engineer Dave Weagle finds

mechanical engineer Dave Weagle finds the barrier to fun and starts sketching and prototyping until he finds a better solution—whether it be designing a chain guard

Sarah Audsley seeks the true meaning of wild

Because when darkness settles on the backcountry

He was the first to free climb the route ground up without rappelling from the top to practice any of the cruxes beforehand

Alpinist Magazine Issue 89 | Spring 2025 Print or Digital?:Digital Issue (PDF) mechanical engineer Dave Weagle findsCover: Mary Catherine Eden squeezes up Gabriel (5. 13), an offwidth route in Zion National Park. Keisuke Mizuno Features In the Shadow of the Grand The world renowned alpinist Michael Gardner guided Brendan Jones up the Grand Teton in 2022. The two kept in touch with plans for Jones to write a magazine profile about Gardners wild and unusual life. Meanwhile, Gardner continued to climb new lines, ski first descents and set speed records on Denalis