![Stories of Ice: Adventure, Commerce and Creativity on Canada's Glaciers by Lynn Martel. Rocky Mountain Books, 2020. 336 pages. Hardcover, $40 (CAN). [Image] Courtesy Rocky Mountain Books](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/book-stories-of-ice-1-930x620.jpg)
Sarah Boon reviews Lynn Martel’s latest book, “Stories of Ice: Adventure, Commerce and Creativity on Canada’s Glaciers,” which was published earlier this year. Boon describes
… Read More »Glaciers Abound in Lynn Martel’s new book, “Stories of Ice”
In 1986 Canadian mountaineer Sharon Wood and her teammate Dwayne Congdon reached the summit of Mt. Everest (Chomolungma) via a variation to the difficult West
![[Cover] Turn Around Time: A Walking Poem for the Pacific Northwest. David Guterson. Illustrations by Justin Gibbens. Mountaineers Books. Hardcover, 144 Pages. $21.95.](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/turn-around-time-1-930x620.jpg)
Sarah Boon reports that David Guterson’s new book Turn Around Time applies the mountaineering concept as “a metaphor for life.” The book-length series of prose
… Read More »David Guterson’s book “Turn Around Time” applies mountaineering themes to youth, aging
“A peak can exercise the same irresistible power as an abyss,” Theophile Gautier wrote in 1868. Robert Macfarlane’s new book Underland explores the landscapes below
… Read More »Mountaineering in reverse: Tales from the Underland
