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Book Review — Mountains Before Mountaineering and Other Everests
By: Katie Ives | A version of this review previously appeared in the 2025 American Alpine Journal. Ghosts haunt the pages of mountaineering history: names of the innumerable dead recounted in litanies of loss; blank spaces between the lines, recalling those forgotten, silenced, or erased. And there are also what historian
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Book Review — A Line Above the Sky
By: Katie Ives | Originally published in the 2023 American Alpine Journal. Beyond the crisp lines of streets and rivers, beyond the typed names and elevation points of cities and mountains, beyond the ripples of hillside contours and the dots of marked trails, there are other tracks of passage, invisible on