[Photo] Chris Weidner
Yesterday afternoon, a few before days from completing our latest issue, Alpinist 53, an email came across my desk stating that the Editor-in-Chief of our magazine, Katie Ives will be recognized for excellence in climbing literature at the 2016 American Alpine Club (AAC) Annual Benefit Dinner on February 27.
It stated: “Katie Ives has brought thoughtful analysis, brilliant writing and finesse to climbing literature since joining the Alpinist team in 2004.”
The honor, previously called the American Alpine Club Literary Award, was renamed in recent years to the H. Adams Carter Literary Award in memory of a professor at Milton Academy, in Milton Mass., who died on April 1, 1995. For four decades, Carter was editor of the American Alpine Journal. “He made it what it is today,” AAC CEO Phil Powers said over the phone. “I would get these letters from him typed out saying ‘I hear you were in Pakistan, tell me your story.’ Getting those letters in the mail was really special. That was back in the days of typewriters. At the time, getting in a magazine or the American Alpine Journal was the only way to get recognized as a climber. We renamed it for him two to three years ago
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“I think where Katie expresses herself so eloquently goes beyond her editorials and articles to include her role as an editor,” Powers said.
Previous recipients include:
Jon Krakauer: 1986
Greg Child: 1987
H. Adams Carter: 1988
Ed Webster: 1990
David S. Roberts: 1992
Jeff Long: 1993
Elizabeth Hawley: 1994
Allen Steck: 1995
Steve Roper: 1995
Jonathan Waterman: 1996
Broughton Coburn: 1997
Michael Kennedy: 1998
Audrey Salkeld: 1999
Rick Ridgeway: 2002
Tami Knight: 2003
Galen Rowell: 2003
Brad Washburn: 2003
Mark Jenkins: 2004
John Sherman: 2005
John Long: 2006
Alison Osius: 2007
John Harlin, III: 2008
Maria Coffey: 2009
Doug Robinson: 2010
Royal Robbins: 2011
Bernadette McDonald: 2012
Duane Raleigh: 2013
Freddie Wilkinson: 2014
Jeff Lowe: 2015