Alpinist Magazine Closes, Suspends Operations

by UKC News Jackson, Wyoming ? October 16, 2008 ? Alpinist LLC, which publishes the climbing magazine Alpinist, runs the website www.alpinist.com and produces The Alpinist Film Festival, announced today that the October 2008 financial crisis has forced them to suspend operations.Founded in 2002 by Marc Ewing and Christian Beckwith, Alpinist began in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, as an archival-quality publication dedicated to world alpinism and adventure climbing. The quarterly quickly gained a reputation for both superior writing and beautiful photography; by 2004, Italian climbing legend Reinhold Messner called it, “The best climbing magazine in the world today.” Alpinist went on to win numerous awards; in March 2005 it was featured in a seven-page article in Outside Magazine (“The Purists”) that explored its impact on American climbing.Full Press Release at: www.alpinist.com This may not be the end of Alpinist magazine however. We´ll keep you posted.

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