A Climber We Lost: Burton “Burt” Angrist

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Shawanagunks climbing pioneer Burton “Burt” Angrist died on May 17 at the age of 87. Angrist climbed across North America, from the sandstone of the American Southwest to the granite of the Bugaboos, but is best known as the author of now classic hardman routes in the Gunks in the 1960s, and as a counterculture fixture in the New York climbing scene for the better part of a century. Angrist and his wife, Anka, owned a cabin in the Gunks from the 1970s...