Imagination
FOR A LONG time, I used to work on Alpinist from twilight until dawn. In the small hours of the night, time appeared to stretch… Read More »Imagination
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The Elusive, Essential Feeling
The day is done. In the darkness, bruised and battered hands react unconsciously and follow the familiar Braille trail of the desert pinstripes scratched in… Read More »The Elusive, Essential Feeling
Editor’s Note
SO BEGAN THE LETTER. Marc Ewing wanted to start a magazine–the magazine, actually, that I had always worried somebody else would start. The timing was… Read More »Editor’s Note
A House of Stone and Snow
In which our editor travels to California to meet the women who founded America’s first monthly climbing magazine, Summit, in 1955.
Letters | A Man out of Time: Eric Bjornstad (1934-2014)
Stewart Green pens an elegy for Eric Bjornstad (1934–2014), author of Desert Rock, climber of sandstone spires and lover of open spaces.
26 Tool Users: The Jensen Pack
Described by the famous mountaineering writer David Roberts as a man “for whom no expedition was long enough,” Don Jensen spent years creating the perfect… Read More »26 Tool Users: The Jensen Pack
15 Letters
A graduate student unpacks more of the myths of mountain tourism. A librarian and a sailor share stories of meeting and missing the late, elusive… Read More »15 Letters
11 The Sharp End: A Wild of One’s Own
Editor-in-Chief Katie Ives searches for “A Wild of One’s Own” in the annals of women’s mountaineering history in Western Canada and the writings of Mary… Read More »11 The Sharp End: A Wild of One’s Own