Book Review
By Katie Ives | A version of this review originally appeared in Alpinist 90. Beneath old formulaic tales of men's dominion over mountains, rivers, and air, there have always been more varied stories by people of all genders — at times flowing like underground streams or bursting forth with a
Book Review
By: Katie Ives | Originally published in Alpinist 89. May 1988: For days, Mimi Zieman stared into a void of whirling snow. Somewhere behind the mists, her teammates Robert Anderson, Stephen Venables, and Ed Webster were staggering down Chomolungma (Everest), after the first ascent of the remote Neverest Buttress, far from
Book Review
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
Book Review
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