![An 1805 map of the Yellowstone River, which historian James P. Ronda writes, was based off drawings or information from the Mandan chief Sheheke and copied by William Clark, who noted that it led "as far as the high mountains." [Photo] Beinecke Library, Yale University](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/typologies-of-silence-930x620.jpg)
Typologies of Silence
In “Typologies of Silence,” the Sharp End article for Alpinist 55, Editor-in-chief Katie Ives discusses some of the muted stories in accounts of early American
Home » Weekly Feature »
Weekly Feature
Between the Earth and the Sky
For our Climbing Life department in Alpinist 55, high school student Kai Lightner writes about his first multipitch traditional climb on Stone Mountain, with Yosemite
![Bluemlisalp traverse above Kandersteg, Bernese Alps. [Photo] Abacus Mountain Guides](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/bluemlisalp-traverse-930x620.jpg)
Poetry Feature: Three Poems by David Wilson
“Tell me again about being single-minded, / about couloirs bulging with fat blue ice / and dawn arriving high in the Alps; / how a
Home: an Index
“There is glacial power in language, in naming things. I am here because my mother gave me a vocabulary for motion,” poet Devi Lockwood writes
Local Hero: Clint Helander on Mark Westman
Why Mark Westman should be famous (A postscript to Alpinist 19). May’s everlasting sun hovered in a low, lateral arc over the Alaska Range, bathing
The Path
It’s 3 a.m., July 2015. We walk through the darkness, headlamps illuminating our path. A cool breeze awakens the trees, and the creek bubbles to
Glen Denny Remembers Valley Walls in the 1960s
Valley Walls: A Memoir of Climbing and Living in Yosemite by Glen Denny. Published by Yosemite Conservancy, May 2016. 210 pages. Paperback. $18.95. During the
Poetry Feature: “Kalymnos”
This poem was inspired by climbing in Kalymnos for the first time a few years ago and thinking about that point in the day when
The Climbing Life: She Climbed Alone
As a young climber in the 1990s, I developed a strange habit. Each year I found myself obsessively searching the American Alpine Club’s Accidents in
The Climbing Life: The March of Folly
“I’M SO GLAD TO SEE YOU BOYS,” Lee Sorenson shouted as he ran across the campsite toward us, his bearded face beaming with love and
Darwin’s Disappointment
In September 1833, Charles Darwin set out for the four peaks of the Sierra de la Ventana alone, lured by local murmurs of caves and
Solo Faces: The Camaraderie of Divine or Reckless Brotherhood
Before I left for Chamonix to go hiking in the French Alps, I borrowed Solo Faces by James Salter from the lending library at work.
… Read More »Solo Faces: The Camaraderie of Divine or Reckless Brotherhood