Putting Alpinist #91 and #92 with the rest of the collection …

When I realized there were still two articles I wanted to read, and they were both wonderful. The first by Bernadette McDonald remembering Polish climber Wanda Rutkiewicz, and the other by Christopher Elliott, about his solo climb of the Campanile Basso in the Brenta Dolomites.

This article is less about the Campanile Basso climb, and more about reflections on the nature of the moral imperatives climbers owe. Not just what do we owe in climbing ethics, to climbing community, but what do we owe to the nation, global communities, and humanity.

The focus is on three climbers from the 1920s-1940s, and their relationship to climbs on the Campanile Basso, but also to their reactions towards the spread of fascism. There is no mention of our current global trends, but one must guess it was in the back of his mind, when he wrote the article.

If you get a chance, check them out.