![The great Himalayan chronicler Elizabeth Hawley paging through files at her apartment in Dilli Bazar, Nepal, after the 2015 earthquake. [Photo] Alet Pretorius](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a62-sharp-end-1-929x620.jpg)
The Mountain of Data
In this Sharp End story from Alpinist 62, Editor-in-Chief Katie Ives contextualizes some of the life and work of the great Himalayan chronicler Elizabeth Hawley,… Read More »The Mountain of Data
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![Clarence King (far right) with other members of the Geological Survey of California in 1864. [Photo] Silas Selleck, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a61-sharp-end-1-699x620.jpg)
The Mountain of Diamonds
In this Sharp End story from Alpinist 61, Editor-in-Chief Katie Ives ponders the legend of the “mountain of diamonds” in nineteenth-century American history and the… Read More »The Mountain of Diamonds
![Edward LaChapelle and Austin Post in 1995. Glacier Ice continues to influence current photographers' efforts to document climate change. [Photo] Courtesy Ananda Foley](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/a60-sharp-end-1.jpg)
Vanishing Uplands
Alpinist Editor-in-Chief Katie Ives recounts the lives of Austin Post and Edward LaChapelle and their contributions to the study of glaciers and snow, including their… Read More »Vanishing Uplands
![The altered map from the May 1960 Summit article, An Unclimbed No Name Peak, showing the imaginary location of the mountain. As Ronald Peattie pointed out in Mountain Geography, surprisingly few people agree what a real mountain is, how high and steep it must be for that term: To a large extent, a mountain is a mountain because of the role it plays in popular imagination. [Image] Courtesy of the American Alpine Club](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/xalp59-sharp-end-1-690x620.jpg.pagespeed.ic.IpRrfaoyVH.jpg)
The World as It is Not
During the mid-twentieth century, an ardent conservationist and Cascades mountaineer planted a series of elaborate hoaxes in Summit magazine. He hoped to prod readers to… Read More »The World as It is Not
![The Black Dike, Cannon Cliff, New Hampshire, 1970s. Laura Waterman was the first woman to climb the route, four years after John Bouchard's 1971 first ascent. [Photo] Ed Webster](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/sharp-end-issue-57-930x620.jpg)
The Precarious World–The Sharp End, Alpinist 57
At a time when the word precarious is used increasingly to describe many aspects of our current existence, Katie Ives reflects on the differences between… Read More »The Precarious World–The Sharp End, Alpinist 57
![Lauret Savoy's Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape (2015). [Photo] Katie Ives](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/trace-cover-930x620.jpg)
Lauret Savoy’s Trace: Exploring Landscapes of Exclusion and Inclusion in American History
Alpinist Editor-in-chief Katie Ives describes some of the reasons Lauret Savoy’s 2015 book, Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape has become deeply relevant… Read More »Lauret Savoy’s Trace: Exploring Landscapes of Exclusion and Inclusion in American History
![The Emperor Face of Mt. Robson (3959m), where Barry Blanchard, Eric Dumerac and Philippe Pellet made the first ascent of Infinite Patience (VI 5.9 M5 WI5, 2200m) in 2002. Fourteen years later, Marc-Andre Leclerc soloed it. [Photo] Jeffrey Pang](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/mount_robson_twilight-930x620.jpg)
Off Route and Out of Time – The Sharp End, Alpinist 56
Back in April 2016, Canadian alpinist Marc-Andre Leclerc described his solo of the Emperor Face of Mt. Robson: “My thoughts had reached a depth and… Read More »Off Route and Out of Time – The Sharp End, Alpinist 56
![Kyle Dempster and Bruce Normand in Shuangqiao Valley, Siguiang Shan Mountains, Sichuan, China. [Photo] Andrew Burr](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/the-mountain-stories-of-kyle-dempster-930x620.jpg)
Edges of Maps: The Mountain Stories of Kyle Dempster
At the time of his disappearance on the Ogre II, Kyle Dempster was one of the most promising mountain storytellers of his generation. Alpinist editor-in-chief… Read More »Edges of Maps: The Mountain Stories of Kyle Dempster
![An 1805 map of the Yellowstone River, which historian James P. Ronda writes, was based off drawings or information from the Mandan chief Sheheke and copied by William Clark, who noted that it led "as far as the high mountains." [Photo] Beinecke Library, Yale University](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/typologies-of-silence-930x620.jpg)
Typologies of Silence
In “Typologies of Silence,” the Sharp End article for Alpinist 55, Editor-in-chief Katie Ives discusses some of the muted stories in accounts of early American… Read More »Typologies of Silence
A History of Imaginary Mountains–Thoreau’s Dream: Beyond the Maps
Behind the histories of exploration lie less-visible tales of rumored summits that prove to be nonexistent, and of physical mountains whose shapes and heights transform… Read More »A History of Imaginary Mountains–Thoreau’s Dream: Beyond the Maps
Sharp End: The Ice World, Beyond
During the Victorian Age, an intrepid group of women helped pioneer winter mountaineering–only to have their contributions largely vanish from mainstream history.