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Book Review: An Abundance of Wild Roses
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“In Such a Divided Country, It’s Revolutionary”: Climbing as an Act of Reconstruction in Syria
After the fall of the Assad regime, Syrian climbers are bringing climbing back to life in a country undergoing reconstruction. A report by Bushra Alzoubi from Damascus, originally published in French by Vertige Media.
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The Permission to Write Small
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The Sky, the Earth, the Sea, the Soul
CMarie Fuhrman and Ese Erheriene offer subversive poetry. Teresa Baker and Midy Aponte-Vargas reflect on advocating for diversity and justice. Holly Chen evokes the power of small moments. And an excerpt from Dorothy Pilley’s 1935 classic, Climbing Days on early women-only expeditions.
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Book Review — A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change
By: Amanda Vestergaard | Edited by Andrea Bagnato, Marco Ferrari, and Elisa Pasqual (Columbia University Press, 2018) If national borders are mapped onto natural geographical boundaries, what happens when those boundaries begin to melt? Published in 2019, A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change is a beautifully produced volume describing
Interviews
Interview — Only Barely Still – On Women and Wilderness
By Kang-Chun (KC) Cheng | This interview previously appeared in the June 2026 Newsletter Kang-Chun (KC) Cheng interviews Belgian photographer Catherine Lemblé about her photo book Only Barely Still – On Women and Wilderness, which reimagines the Arctic through the lives of the women living there, with a particular focus
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On Writing the Altered Landscape
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Awards for Nature, Environmental, Science, and Mountain Writing Books, Stories, and Articles
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