Alpina,
2023
Dartmouth College
Alpina
Appalachia
Among the many updates on mountaineering in the greater ranges: More information on a Denali climber who in May 2021 called for a rescue he did not need. Clint Helander and Andres Marin climb Shaft of the Abyss on Golgotha in Alaska. Among many “firsts” on Everest in 2022, Lucy Westlake, 18, becomes the youngest American woman to summit. Polish mountaineer Marek Raganowicz climbs a new route on the North Face of Polar Sun Arm on Baffin Island. Three climbers achieve a new route on Cerro Torre in Patagonia. Reviews of eight mountaineering films, including Infinite Storm (Bleecker Street …
Accidents,
2023
Dartmouth College
Accidents
Appalachia
Reports of rescues and accidents in New Hampshire’s White Mountains during the cold weather and pre-meltout months of late 2021 and winter/spring 2022. The editors describe the role the mind plays in planning and executing hikes. Two incidents of poor planning complicated by medical conditions in the Franconia Ridge area are examined. A hiker slips on the Fishin’ Jimmy Trail. In April, a skier suffers a long fall and multiple injuries in the Great Gulf Wilderness. Cardiac trouble plagues a guest at Carter Notch Hut in March. A hiker falls long and hard while trying to take a photo on …
Letters,
2023
Dartmouth College
Letters
Appalachia
Musings on the good and bad of cell phones in response to Stephen Kurczy’s “Do Cell Phones Belong in the Mountains?” Summer/Fall 2022). An ALS sufferer’s moving response to Rachel Curtis’s piece on losing her hiking partner to ALS (“Preparing: A Wrong Turn, a Dangerous River, and an Absent Partner”). Thoughts on problems of trail apps.
Quickwater: New England's Whitewater Canoeing Heritage,
2023
Dartmouth College
Quickwater: New England's Whitewater Canoeing Heritage, Rick Spedden
Appalachia
A canoeist whose parents met on an Appalachian Mountain Club whitewater trip tells the story of mid-twentieth-century AMC water exploration.
Slowing Down: A Young Naturalist Lagging Behind A Group Pulls A Stranger Into Her World,
2023
Dartmouth College
Slowing Down: A Young Naturalist Lagging Behind A Group Pulls A Stranger Into Her World, Elissa Ely
Appalachia
Hurrying down Mount Monadnock ahead of a storm, the writer encounters a student with much to teach her.
Day Four: A Rescuer's Account Of A Hiker's Baffling Survival,
2023
Dartmouth College
Day Four: A Rescuer's Account Of A Hiker's Baffling Survival, James Mason
Appalachia
In early of May 2009, teams from New Hampshire search-and-rescue organizations try to locate a man missing for four days below the Franconia Ridge. The outcome is astonishing.
White Mountain Mysteries: A Bushwhacker And His Brother Decode Remote Place Names,
2023
Dartmouth College
White Mountain Mysteries: A Bushwhacker And His Brother Decode Remote Place Names, William Geller
Appalachia
Stories of mysterious places off trail in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, each trip lasting three days in the fall.
Waterman Fund Essay Winner: What Climate Models Don't Show: A Scientist's Work On A Future Forest Model Can Feel Personal,
2023
Dartmouth College
Waterman Fund Essay Winner: What Climate Models Don't Show: A Scientist's Work On A Future Forest Model Can Feel Personal, Olivia Box
Appalachia
The author, the winner of our annual essay contest for emerging writers, keeps adjusting her computer model of the impact of the Asian longhorned beetle on future New England forests.
Laughter At High Altitude: Encounter With A Pair Of Elands,
2023
Dartmouth College
Laughter At High Altitude: Encounter With A Pair Of Elands, Daniel Hudon
Appalachia
In South Africa’s central Drakensberg mountains, these docile antelopes seem mildly curious about a human.
Photographing Wildlife: How To Capture An Image Without Forsaking A Wild Animal,
2023
Dartmouth College
Photographing Wildlife: How To Capture An Image Without Forsaking A Wild Animal, Lisa Ballard
Appalachia
Lisa Ballard, an award-winning outdoor photographer, says that one must be physically fit and study an animal’s habitat, food, and life cycle in order to take photos.
The Harpy Eaglet: Real Encounters With A Feathered Phantasma,
2023
Dartmouth College
The Harpy Eaglet: Real Encounters With A Feathered Phantasma, Christina Devin Vojta
Appalachia
The author answered an ad, “Field assistant needed for research on monkeys and harpy eagles in Peru” and got the job observing harpy eagle chicks, the size of bald eagles.
The Thrush Sings Me Home: What Is Killing The Birds Of My Heart?,
2023
Dartmouth College
The Thrush Sings Me Home: What Is Killing The Birds Of My Heart?, Amy Boyd
Appalachia
Amy Boyd writes of her heartbreak seeing dead wood thrushes in her town. Habitat destruction and climate change will reduce these beautiful birds’ numbers by 80 percent over the next 60 years.
Mama Bear And Me: Sharing Inner Knowledge In A Few Glances,
2023
Dartmouth College
Mama Bear And Me: Sharing Inner Knowledge In A Few Glances, Katie Baptist
Appalachia
A woman camping alone in northern California's Yolla Bolly Wilderness meets a mother bear at an uncomfortably close range.
Interviews With Bears: Trailside, Near New York City,
2023
Dartmouth College
Interviews With Bears: Trailside, Near New York City, Margaret Redmond Whitehead
Appalachia
The author encounters bears both in wild parts of the Appalachian Trail and in the settled Trailside Museums & Zoo near Bear Mountain, New York. She reveals the blurred lines between human and bear territory.
The Long Way Home: Danger Defines The Meaning Of Safety,
2023
Dartmouth College
The Long Way Home: Danger Defines The Meaning Of Safety, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
The editor-in-chief explores risk at the rushing edges of Bumpus Brook in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Appalachia Winter/Spring 2023: Complete Issue,
2023
Dartmouth College
Appalachia Winter/Spring 2023: Complete Issue
Appalachia
Winter/Spring 2023 - Volume LXXIV, Number 1 - Issue #255. Encounters with Animals: Glimpsing the Soul of Nature
Fragments Of The Dark: Essays On Heritage, Anxiety, And Spirit,
2023
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Fragments Of The Dark: Essays On Heritage, Anxiety, And Spirit, Nicholas Diaz
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
“I am the war my family forgot to mention.” With these words from my essay, “My Parents Never Taught Me About My Ancestors,” I stake my position in the struggle for happiness. In a series of five experimental essays, I aim to reflect upon my assimilated white, working-class upbringing in the US Midwest and the emptiness with which it has left me. Deploying fragmentary essay forms, elements of memoir, question-and-answer, quotation, prayer, and other devices, I hope to pose destabilizing questions about our understandings of whiteness, masculinity, ancestry, and faith. Questions which, I hope, can help us (particularly those of …
Santa Clara Review, Vol. 110, No. 1,
2023
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara Review, Vol. 110, No. 1, Santa Clara University
Santa Clara Review
No abstract provided.
I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue In F Minor,
2023
CUNY Queens College
I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue In F Minor, Seo-Young J. Chu
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
Dissertation Chapters Underway: 10,000 Shards, Or Opening And Activating Depth: Handicraft, Value, And The Work Of Art (Shards 00000-00001), Christopher Southward,
2023
Binghamton University--SUNY
Dissertation Chapters Underway: 10,000 Shards, Or Opening And Activating Depth: Handicraft, Value, And The Work Of Art (Shards 00000-00001), Christopher Southward, Christopher Southward
Comparative Literature Faculty and Student Scholarship
Dissertation Chapters Underway: 10,000 Shards, Or Opening and Activating Depth: Handicraft, Value, and the Work of Art (Shards 00000-00001), Christopher Southward
