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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, Rick Spedden 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, Elissa Ely 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, James Mason 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, William Geller 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, Olivia Box 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, Daniel Hudon 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, Lisa Ballard 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, Christina Devin Vojta 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?, Amy Boyd 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, Katie Baptist 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, Margaret Redmond Whitehead 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, Christine Woodside 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, Nicholas Diaz 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, Santa Clara University 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, Seo-Young J. Chu 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, 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


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