• September 22, 2023
  • Explanatory
    Explanatory

    Alta Journal, Print and Online: This Place Belongs to You

    Outside Magazine Online Feature: Leaving the Grace of This World

    Mining a Richer Vein

  • Profile
    Profile

    Alta Journal, Print and Online: This Place Belongs to You

    Outside Magazine Online Feature: “I Write for Katie”: How Katie Ives Climbs Mountains at ‘Alpinist’

    Outside Magazine Online Feature: Leaving the Grace of This World

  • Travel
    Travel

    The Telemarking Snow Farmer of Central Appalachia

    Nordic Norms, or Finding Friluftsliv

    Into the Heart of Patagonia’s Secret Archives

  • Essay
    Essay

    Outside Magazine Online: Antisemitic Statements by a Climbing Pioneer Prompt the American Alpine Club to Rename a Prestigious Honor

    Outside Magazine Online Feature: Leaving the Grace of This World

    Sacrifice, Grief, and the Outdoor Athlete in the Time of COVID-19

  • Investigative
    Investigative

    Outside Magazine Online: Antisemitic Statements by a Climbing Pioneer Prompt the American Alpine Club to Rename a Prestigious Honor

    Outside Magazine Online Feature: Leaving the Grace of This World

    Figures on a Landscape

  • Opinion
    Opinion

    Outside Magazine Online: Antisemitic Statements by a Climbing Pioneer Prompt the American Alpine Club to Rename a Prestigious Honor

    Sacrifice, Grief, and the Outdoor Athlete in the Time of COVID-19

    Your Favorite Extreme Athlete is Moonlighting as a Motivational Speaker

  • Review-Interview
    Review-Interview

    The Greening of Alex Honnold

    The Adventure Gap and Narratives of Inclusion

    Art of the Wild: Gessner, Stegner, and Abbey

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    Profile-Review

    The Alchemist

    Abbey’s Back

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    The Public Ownership of Fred Beckey

    A remembrance of the late Fred Beckey and an analysis of how climbing's folkloric tradition imbued his legend.
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    EssayProfile

    The Majesty Polarity

    An essay/profile teasing out the late Michael Strassman's views on sustainable adventure, or majesty, and ambitious, risk-taking mountaineering, or glory.
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    ProfileTravel

    David Beck: Architect of the Sierra High Route

    Profile of David Beck, the founder of the Sierra High Route, the classic skiing route across the Sierra Nevada range.
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    ExplanatoryProfile

    Running Talus

    The story of how the climber and writer Doug Robinson sparked an environmental revolution in Yosemite Valley.
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    ProfileTravel

    The Telemarking Snow Farmer of Central Appalachia

    Profile of West Virginia's cross country skiing impresario, Chip Chase.
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    Profile

    Jennifer Ridgeway Tribute

    An remembrance of Jennifer Ridgeway, the mastermind behind the look and feel -- and outsize influence -- of the Patagonia Catalog.
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    ExplanatoryProfile

    Rebelling Against the Void

    A feature profile of the prolific author-climber-explorer, David Roberts.
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    The Greening of Alex Honnold

    A profile of and long-form interview with climber and Academy Award winner Alex Honnold about his foundation's sustainable development efforts.
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    ExplanatoryProfile

    Fall

    Feature profile of Dr. Jesse Leaman and his metamorphosis from able-bodied athlete to quadriplegic college student to astrophysicist.
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    Profile

    Euell Gibbons: No Grape Nut He

    THE AUTHOR AND FORAGER Euell Theophilus Gibbons once served as the folksy face of Grape-Nuts, the breakfast cereal that contains neither...
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    ExplanatoryProfile

    Searching for Jensen

    A search to uncover the true story of the late mountaineer Don Jensen's life.
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    The Natural

    Profile of Peter Mayfield, a pioneer in nature-based therapy for youth, and the former Chief Guide of the Yosemite School of Mountaineering.
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    ExplanatoryProfileTravel

    Nordic Norms, or Finding Friluftsliv

    Combining travel journalism and profile, this feature-length inquiry explores the Norwegian concept of friluftsliv, as seen through the eyes of professional skijorer Karoline Conradi Øksnevad.
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    ExplanatoryProfile

    Alta Journal, Print and Online: This Place Belongs to You

    A 5,200-word profile of Joshua Tree National Park and its superintendent, David Smith.
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    Outside Magazine Online Feature: Leaving the Grace of This World

    An inquiry into the psychological and biological causes of Michigan attorney Richard Jerome Levine's 2003 suicide in a Michigan trout stream.
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    ProfileReview

    Outside Magazine Online Feature: “I Write for Katie”: How Katie Ives Climbs Mountains at ‘Alpinist’

    Feature profile of Alpinist Magazine’s editor-in-chief, Katie Ives, and her influence on mountain literature. Also a review of her book,...
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