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.
Brynn Saito on the inner mountains we inhabit. Kate Wilkinson on climate change and hope. Holly Chen on a quote that inspires her. Hanniah Tariq on an alternative literary ethos for the Anthropocene. Endria Isa Richardson on a climbing language that transcends a colonial past.
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.
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
