![Andrew Boyd climbs Flight of the Challenger (5.12c) in Squamish, British Columbia, circa mid-1990s. [Photo] Rich Wheater](https://dev.alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/andrew-boyd-1-930x620.jpg)
The Vision of Andrew Boyd
Drew Copeland considers how Andrew Boyd has quietly influenced the Squamish climbing scene in the last twenty years with his bold first free ascents and visionary lines.
Public Lands and the Future of Advocacy: An Interview with Brady Robinson (Part I in an Interview Series)
On November 16, 2016, the Access Fund released a statement in response to the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, “What Will the Trump Administration Mean for Climbing?” We’ve since followed up with Brady Robinson, executive director of the Access Fund and chair of the Outdoor Alliance, to learn more about his thoughts on the broader future of environmental issues and public lands–and the roles that climbers might play in helping to conserve wild places.
![Mike Lewis begins the roof pitch on Vertigo (5.11b) in Eldorado Canyon, Colorado. [Photo] Slava Lototskyy](https://dev.alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tenaya-ra-1-1-930x620.jpg)
Tenaya Ra: A true ‘all-around performance shoe’
Mike Lewis finds that the Tenaya Ra has everything he looks for in a climbing shoe, including a great out-of-the-box fit that doesn’t require a break-in period. Five Stars!
The Shining Mountains
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.
![[Photo] Tyler Roemer](https://dev.alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/buffalo-soldiers-in-the-cavalrymans-930x620.jpg)
Buffalo Soldiers in the Cavalryman’s Paradise
Yosemite National Park Ranger Shelton Johnson explores “the pitch of the wild” for the Buffalo Soldiers on patrol in Yosemite at the turn of the twentieth century.
![Jacopo Larcher climbs The Nipple pitch (5.13d) on Zodiac (VI 5.13d) at sunset. [Photo] Francois Lebeau and Black Diamond Equipment](https://dev.alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/zodiac-free-1-930x620.jpg)
Zangerl and Larcher make the third free ascent of Zodiac on El Capitan
Barbara Zangerl and Jacopo Larcher recently made the third free ascent of Zodiac (VI 5.13d) on El Capitan after a 13-year period in which no one succeeded since the first and second free ascents were made in 2003.
![Jim Detterline in his element on the upper section of Kiener's Route on the East Face of Longs Peak (14,259'), July 2010. [Photo] Lisa Foster](https://dev.alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/detterline-1.jpg)
Jim Detterline touched many lives as a climbing ranger in Rocky Mountain Nat’l Park
Jim Detterline participated in more than 1,200 rescues in his long career as a climbing ranger in Rocky Mountain National Park. He was well loved and famous for climbing Longs Peak (14,259’) a record 428 times. He died in a rope-soloing accident near his home in late October. More than 1,000 people attended the memorial service.
![This photo of the southeast face of Kyzyl Asker (5842m) shows Ines Papert and Luka Lindic's new route, Lost in China (ED WI5+ M6, 1200m), in red. [Photo] Ines Papert and Luka Lindic](https://dev.alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/lost-in-china-fa-1-930x620.jpeg)
Ines Papert and Luka Lindic establish new route on Kyzyl Asker
Ines Papert and Luka Lindic discover the best ice either of them have ever encountered so high on a mountain during the two-day ascent of their new route on Kyzyl Asker (5842m), Lost in China (ED WI5+ M6, 1200m).
![Peter Holben leads Country Club Crack (5.11b/c) at Castle Rock in Boulder Canyon, Colorado, in one 150-foot pitch. [Photo] Chris Van Leuven](https://dev.alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/dragon-cams-1-1-930x620.jpg)
Updated DMM Dragon cams: Stable, easy to place and clean
Chris Van Leuven compares the new DMM Dragon cams to other brands and finds he likes to mix and match for optimal weight and size-runs, awarding them four stars out of five.
![Adam Ondra celebrates on Wino Tower after finishing the most difficult pitches of the El Capitan's Dawn Wall (VI 5.14d). [Photo] Heinz Zak and Black Diamond Equipment](https://dev.alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ondra-dawn-wall-1-930x620.jpg)
Adam Ondra Frees the Dawn Wall
Adam Ondra sets a new precedent on the second free ascent of El Capitan’s Dawn Wall (VI 5.14d) by blazing up the route in fewer than eight days and leading every pitch.