![K2 (8611m). [Photo] Piotr Pawlus / Red Bull Content Pool](https://dev.alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/k2-ski-descent-1-930x620.jpg)
On Sunday, July 22, Polish ski mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel became the first person in history to climb and ski the behemoth K2 (8611m), located on the China/Pakistan border in the Karakoram Range.
![Janusz Klarner arrives on the summit snowfield of Nanda Devi East in 1939. Nanda Kot is visible in the background. [Photo] Jakub Bujak collection](https://dev.alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a62-eye-of-the-storm-1-930x620.jpg)
In this Mountain Profile essay from Alpinist 62, Julia Pulwicki translates Janusz Klarner’s account of the first ascent of Nanda Devi East in 1939 by Klarner’s Polish team. This essay is part of an extensive two-part feature by Pete Takeda that includes other essays by various authors as well as this one.
![[Photo] Krystle Wright](https://dev.alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/krystle-wright-acp-1-930x620.jpg)
From October 30 through November 5, 2016, Krystle Wright shared some stories and photos with the #AlpinistCommunityProject about paragliding in Pakistan. She is an adventure photographer from Australia who considers the open road her home. Her photo essay “In Perpetual Motion”–in which she explores “the void and the unspoken”–is featured in Alpinist 62.
![The This Land is Our Land March for Public Lands congregated in front of the Utah capitol in Salt Lake City on July 27 in conjunction with the last Outdoor Retailer Summer Market trade show to be hosted by the city. OR recently agreed to move the trade show to Denver starting next year in response to Utah lawmakers' continued efforts to rescind Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments. [Photo] Emma Murray](https://dev.alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/outdoor-retailer-trade-show-feature-1-930x620.jpg)
Sara Aranda and Emma Murray attended Salt Lake City’s last Outdoor Retailer Summer Market Trade Show to journal the demonstrations and conversations about public lands as well as race and gender equality in the outdoor industry. Here is what they saw and heard.
![Conrad Anker is the keynote speaker for the 2017 American Alpine Club Annual Benefit Dinner on February 25 in Seattle, Washington. [Photo] Jimmy Chin](https://dev.alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/aac-benefit-dinner-1-930x620.jpg)
The American Alpine Club opens registration for its Annual Benefit Dinner on February 25 in Seattle, Washington. Five people will receive awards. Conrad Anker is the keynote speaker.
![El Hermano (ca. 4,500), Chile. In 2014 Libby Sauter's team mostly followed the sun-shadow line, and then cut to the right a few hundred feet from the top. [Photo] Doug Tompkins](https://dev.alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/beyond-the-dusk-1-900x620.jpg)
After the death of her brother Michael in June 2012, Suzanne Ybarra noticed a reference to a mysterious “El Hermano” amid his files, along with photos of a massive unclimbed wall. In 2014 one of Michael’s friends, Libby Sauter, organized an expedition to make the first ascent and complete his dream.
Popular books recount the early days of Canadian mountaineering as a story of epic discoveries. In this story from Alpinist 50, historians Zac Robinson and Stephen Slemon examine what often gets left out: the extent to which the “explorers” relied on the prior geographic knowledge of Indigenous guides.
![Dora Keen. [Photo] Wikimedia Commons](https://dev.alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/misc-letters-1-617x620.jpg)
![Tears of the Dragon (Russian Grade 6B, A3 M5, 1150m) marks the second ascent of the Great Wall (5120m) via the northeast face. [Photo] Team archive](https://dev.alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/great-wall-route-930x620.jpg)
