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

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

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

  • June 7, 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

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    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

  • Profile-Review
    Profile-Review

    The Alchemist

    Abbey’s Back

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    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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    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-Review

    The Alchemist

    A mashup of profile, a book review, and an inquiry into whether humans produce endogenous hallucinogens during serious play.
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    Profile-Review

    Abbey’s Back

    THOUGH IT’S BEEN NEARLY THREE DECADES since Edward Abbey drained his last can of beer and flung it onto a Forest Service byway, his...
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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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    ExplanatoryOpinion

    On the Sustainability of Summits

    Findings from the American Alpine Club's Sustainable Summits conference, organized to address the unintended consequences of overuse.
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    The Jensen Archive

    Documents and photos, mostly from the Don C. Jensen Collection at the University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center. Although the...
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    Heretical Pilgrims, or You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down

    Book review of Joseph Taylor III's history of the environmental subtext of Yosemite climbing, "Pilgrims of the Vertical."
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    Climbing, Skiing, Whitewater, Gear

    Contributor, 1994 - 1999, California City Sports. Short trend explainers, how-tos, and profiles, with several cover stories, about mountaineering, Alpine climbing, indoor climbing, track and backcountry skiing, and more.
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    Fall

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

    Snow Monsters

    A feature-length story about the importance of snowmaking to the ski industry.
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    The Adventure Gap and Narratives of Inclusion

    An essay exploring the determinants of the marginalization of BIPOC communities in outdoor recreation, leading into a long-form interview with James Edward Mills, the author of "The Adventure Gap."
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    Searching for Jensen

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

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

    Snowmaking in the Time of Drought

    A deep dive into the environmental externalities of snowmaking in the Tahoe Basin during the drought of 2012 - 2016.
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    Art of the Wild: Gessner, Stegner, and Abbey

    A long-form interview and review of David Gessner's "All the Wild That Remains," a compare/contrast of the environmental writers Edward Abbey and Wallace Stegner.
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    The Fight to Fly

    Short-form interview with Lindsay Van, the plaintiff in a suit against the IOC demanding the right to compete in the Olympic Games.
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    The Pied Pipers of Pow

    Brief celebration of the Sierra backcountry skiers Tom Carter and the late Allan Bard, who spearheaded the highest ski line across the range (The Red Line Traverse), but more importantly, introduced thousands of Californians to Sierra wilderness skiing.
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    Mono Lake: Sanctuary and Symbol

    A feature-length exploration of the natural and human history of California's greatest inland sea, Mono Lake.
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    Andy and Brad’s Most Excellent Adventure

    Description of a marathon multi-sport day in the Eastern Sierra with mountaineer and author Andy Selters.
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