Alpinist Re-launched - The press release from the new owners

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Chris McNamara

SuperTopo staff member
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 1, 2009 - 04:05am PT
I got a note from an editor that i think said the next issue would be out in early april.
James

climber
My twin brother's laundry room
Mar 1, 2009 - 05:26am PT
Sounds accurate. I know Katie Ives and others are working hard to make this magazine a viable source for climbing information.
Katie_I

Mountain climber
Wyoming
Mar 1, 2009 - 10:56am PT
Hey all,

We're working on Issue 26. It had been on the presses in October when Alpinist folded. But, as we found out recently, a large number of the original Issue 26 articles had been sold to other mags while Alpinist was closed (and have since appeared or are forthcoming now in those publications). So we're now re-editing and redesigning the issue to fill in those gaps. And some contributors are working hard to finish replacement articles. I'll let you know as soon as we get a sense of the print date. We're aiming, now, for early April.

Thanks so much for your patience and support. It's exciting to get Alpinist going again. We hope to make the magazine worthy of all of you. Advice of all kinds is welcome....

best,
Katie Ives
katie.r.ives@gmail.com
Michael Hjorth

Trad climber
Copenhagen, Denmark
Mar 1, 2009 - 01:28pm PT
Thank you for good answers; looking foreward.

The prepayed issues are not the most important; would be OK to re-contribute for a viable and good magazine. Just need to know if there is anything I should do to stay on.
Katie_I

Mountain climber
Wyoming
Mar 1, 2009 - 03:14pm PT
Dear Michael,

All old Alpinist subscriptions will be fulfilled by the new Alpinist folks, so if you have a subscription already, you should be set to get Issue 26, etc., when it goes to print.

Thanks for your support,
Katie
GDavis

Trad climber
Mar 1, 2009 - 03:23pm PT
Katie_I

Mountain climber
Wyoming
Mar 1, 2009 - 03:39pm PT
Thanks. That's how I feel. I've never been so happy working on a beautiful Sunday before in my life. =)
Jaybro

Social climber
wuz real!
Mar 1, 2009 - 04:45pm PT
Is there anything like a sample issue? I'm in a position to throw down for something on the lines of the old mag, but I don't want to buy into a 'Rock and climbing' kind of deal. Can we still get the hats? I'd pay full price for a sample.
J. Werlin

climber
Cedaredge
Mar 1, 2009 - 06:33pm PT
Welcome back Katie.

Can't wait for the Phoenix Issue.
Bullwinkle

Boulder climber
Mar 1, 2009 - 06:41pm PT
Corprate art still sucks. DF
Katie_I

Mountain climber
Wyoming
Mar 1, 2009 - 07:00pm PT
Dear Jaybro,

I'll bring up the idea of a sample copy.

There's no intention to make Alpinist like other magazines. I know that Adam Howard, the Backcountry-Alpinist editorial director, wants to preserve the qualities that formed the essence of the old Alpinist--that emphasis on the human experience and internal adventure of climbing, that effort to push boundaries both in the mountains and at the crags--as well as at the level of words and art and creative expression--that determination to attempt to rise to the level of the world's wildest and most compelling places, whether those are in remote regions or in our backyards or within our dreams. To quote Matt Samet's editorial about Alpinist in Climbing (272), it's about "the duty of a vertical publication to inspire the imagination."

We feel that duty keenly.

What Alpinist has, as a reader-supported quarterly, is that incredible, uncommon privilege of nearly unrestricted creative freedom--and of a much longer time span--to explore new ideas, to try to craft deeply envisioned narrative, to seek out authenticity and integrity, to put art above commercialism, to turn breaking news into in-depth, carefully thought-out feature stories. To reach for the timeless, rather than the time-bound. And we owe this privilege to readers like you.

We're still aiming for the best quality imagery and the best storytelling that we and our contributors can achieve. There may be a couple more ads to help pay the bills, but the magazine's ethos and overall appearance will be the same. We'd like, of course, to keep striving to make Alpinist better--to find new ways to get closer to expressing the heart of the climbing experience.

Of course it’s a tough economy, and it will be an adventure in its own way--we want to carry it out successfully and in the best style we can. To do so we'll definitely need help from our subscribers, our readers, our writers and from all the people who have advised us in the past. I've always felt as though Alpinist was a community effort (as certainly the numbers of folks on this site who assisted me and Tommy Caldwell in researching, collecting and fact-checking stories for the El Cap issue can attest--I’m very grateful). And in return, we’ve wanted each issue to be a service to the community, reflecting your climbing lives and your voices; preserving the rich legacy of climbing’s history; and also, we’ve hoped, helping to inspire and enrich your own future dreams.

Issue 26 will be a hybrid--a mixture of the articles originally slated under the old Alpinist, as well as new ones to replace stories that were lost to other mags, while Alpinist was closed. So please, when it does arrive (and it may take more than a month now--sorry--between the writers finishing their new stories; the designer adding them to the issue; and the printers and distributors getting the issue to you), let us know what we can do better. Alpinist exists, above all, for its readers. We want to be worthy of you, if we can.

best,
Katie
Jaybro

Social climber
wuz real!
Mar 1, 2009 - 07:24pm PT
Thanks, Katie, that's exactly what I needed to read. i'll send $, for a year, anyway.

Please, keep up the good work!
Katie_I

Mountain climber
Wyoming
Mar 1, 2009 - 07:26pm PT
Thanks, Jaybro. =)
Jaybro

Social climber
wuz real!
Mar 1, 2009 - 07:27pm PT
de nada, Katie. =)

edit;
I signed up and threw ($) down. This was the coolest climbing journal ever, the best melange of Ascent, Mountain, Vertical, with the highlights of 'off Belay', 'Summit' , even 'Climbing' and 'R & I'. A bit of National geographic production values as well. A high bar, and we aren't talking Limbo!

Good luck, we all need this!
Katie_I

Mountain climber
Wyoming
Mar 1, 2009 - 07:47pm PT
I know you're working hard, Tami--can't wait to read the article. I have to go back to work, too. I have four articles to edit all at once, and my head's spinning. =)

back to it, then,
Katie

Bullwinkle

Boulder climber
Mar 1, 2009 - 08:24pm PT
Yes Tami, it is now.
Bullwinkle

Boulder climber
Mar 1, 2009 - 09:26pm PT
Tami what I mean is art is not made for profit, we make it because we have to, Alpinist was made because CB, et al, had to make it.

Corprations by their very definition are out to make a profit, not "art" MONEY which always seems to trump the "soul" or the "truth"

Alpinist went under because it did not make a "profit" the new owners are already selling AD space, yes folks more underware and black down jackets. And if they need to change the "content" to sell more mag's well, remember what the corprate bottom line is. . . money. . .
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Mar 2, 2009 - 03:42am PT
hey there... this is very nice to know...

say katie... good wishes and the best, to all your edit work that you got....

nice to know, once again, that the magazine is setting-sail for adventure... the ol' rock-climbing way...
Conrad

climber
Mar 2, 2009 - 04:12am PT
Nice news Katie.

Is Ed Webster's mountain profile still in for 26?
Katie_I

Mountain climber
Wyoming
Mar 2, 2009 - 09:59am PT
Ed's piece will be in 26. =)
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