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The cover of the December 1974 issue of Summit Magazine-one of my favorites. Entitled a Peek at Lenin. A climber grasps the art of Socialist Realism at 7406m

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Kiefer Thomas

strange

Voted 10/10

One of the strangest pics I've seen! Did you find it in an achive?

Posted Jun 27, 2006 1:53 am

desainme

Thanks

Hasn't voted

"Summit" was one of the few domestic climbing magazines back then. I had a subscription till they stopped publishing around 1990. Once in a while I would be more self indulgent and get an issue of "Mountain" published in Britain by Ken Wilson. Their photos even of the second on a pitch made one's palms sweat. "Mountain" was the "Alpinist" of its day.

Posted Jun 27, 2006 4:50 am


	Rybakov	Re: Thanks
	Voted 10/10	Thank you for adding the image. Most of those relics are now gone.
		Posted Jul 23, 2006 8:04 pm


	Marcsoltan	Summit Magazine..
	Voted 10/10	I used to subscribe to Summit Magazine as well. Those were the goodol days! I never saw this cover shot. It must have been before I subscribed. Interesting shot though.
		Posted Sep 19, 2008 6:00 pm

Kurt Wedberg

Great cover photo

Voted 10/10

I have this issue of Summit too. What a great magazine that was. Thanks for sharing it.

Posted Nov 6, 2007 1:03 pm

kofskaroni

Historical Climbing Summit?

Hasn't voted

Was this photo attached to a recap of the "international climbing summit" held in the Caucasus that year?

John Roskelley and some Americans were there, as was Doug Scott I believe. I think this is also when a Russian womens team was killed.

I'm fascinated by this time period in World Mountaineering. Does Summit have a report?

Posted Jul 20, 2008 12:17 pm