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.
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Sharp End: Off the Map
1953, Zanskar Himalaya: A small shadow of a woman moves slowly over a drape of white. The summit cone of Nun glows, no longer distant,… Read More »Sharp End: Off the Map
Between the Lines
IN A BRICK HOUSE in the tree-lined village of Hildenborough, England, a Tibetan woman listened to her British husband translate books and newspapers, so she… Read More »Between the Lines
Sharp End
IN A BRICK HOUSE in the tree-lined village of Hildenborough, England, a Tibetan woman listened to her British husband translate books and newspapers, so she… Read More »Sharp End
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
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.
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
The End of the Everest Myth
To look behind the layers of mythology that still gather around Mt. Everest is not merely a matter of pointing out differences in mountaineering styles.… Read More »The End of the Everest Myth
