![Mount St. Helens [Photo] Lyn Topinka/Wikipedia Commons](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/david-stevenson-tcl-18-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
Lives of the Volcano Poets
The author climbs after the volcano poets. This piece originally appeared in Alpinist 40.
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The Adventure Gap and Narratives of Inclusion: James Edward Mills talks about why the face of outdoor adventure must change
Brad Rassler interviews author James Edward Mills about current events and the disparity of opportunities for minorities to try outdoor activities like climbing.
![Columbia Icefield, Alberta. [Photo] Manasseh Franklin](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/poetry-feature-experiencing-ice-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
Poetry Feature: Experiencing Ice
In this poetry feature, writer and adventurer Manasseh Franklin shares work from Experiencing Ice, a series of images and poems about glaciers and “vastness to ponder.”
![Base camp on the frozen Nipissis River below the M51 cliff, in Nitassinan, the Innu name for this land that overlaps with northeastern Quebec. [Photo] Maarten van Haeren](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/the-country-of-winter-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
The Country of Winter: Nitassinan, Quebec
Pete Takeda ventures into some of the vast realms of ice, and the countries within countries of Nitassinan and northeastern Quebec.
Beyond the Guide: White Mountains, New Hampshire
For years, Alan Cattabriga has roamed the White Mountains of New Hampshire, exploring the spaces between the contour lines of maps and creating long, arabesque-like enchainments of classic ice routes. Herein, a tale from one of the East Coast’s most imaginative wanderers.
![Shelika (6045m), south face, northeast of Jindong. [Photo] Tom Nakamura](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/hidden-mountains-of-tibet-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
Nakamura unveils hidden mountains of southern Tibet
Eighty-two-year-old Japanese mountaineer Tamotsu “Tom” Nakamura has been exploring and documenting the seldom-visited regions of Tibet for the last 25 years. In this feature he shares photographs of southern Tibet’s “hidden” mountains.
![El Hermano (ca. 4,500), Chile. In 2014 Libby Sauter's team mostly followed the sun-shadow line, and then cut to the right a few hundred feet from the top. [Photo] Doug Tompkins](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/beyond-the-dusk-1.jpg?resize=900%2C620&ssl=1)
Beyond the Dusk: El Hermano, Andes, Chile
After the death of her brother Michael in June 2012, Suzanne Ybarra noticed a reference to a mysterious “El Hermano” amid his files, along with photos of a massive unclimbed wall. In 2014 one of Michael’s friends, Libby Sauter, organized an expedition to make the first ascent and complete his dream.
Freedom in the Hills
For decades, female alpinists have made extraordinary ascents from remote big walls to storm-swept peaks. In an article from Alpinist 52 (Winter 2015), Charlotte Austin explored some of the lingering barriers of the past and the growing potential for the future.
![The Bond: Survival of Denali and Mount Huntington, by Simon McCartney. [Photo] Courtesy of Mountaineers Books](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/the-bond-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
Book Review: Simon McCartney’s ‘The Bond’
Rick Accomazzo reviews Simon McCartney’s book, The Bond. Published earlier this year, The Bond received the 2016 Banff Mountain and Wilderness Literature Non-Fiction Award, as well as the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.
![Andrew Boyd climbs Flight of the Challenger (5.12c) in Squamish, British Columbia, circa mid-1990s. [Photo] Rich Wheater](https://i0.wp.com/alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/andrew-boyd-1.jpg?resize=930%2C620&ssl=1)
The Vision of Andrew Boyd
Drew Copeland considers how Andrew Boyd has quietly influenced the Squamish climbing scene in the last twenty years with his bold first free ascents and visionary lines.