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Icefall: Eyewitness Account Of A Death In Tuckerman Ravine, Alfred Ziegler, Margaret Ziegler

Appalachia

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Mountain Voices: Rick Wilcox, Part Ii, On Climbing Everest, Loving The White Mountains, And Money, Doug Mayer, Rebecca Oreskes

Appalachia

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Of The Mountain Wind: The Crushing Power Of A Constant Companion Above Treeline, Bethann Weick

Appalachia

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A Capital Experience On Capitol Peak: A Father Reverses Roles With His Son, Douglass P. Teschner

Appalachia

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Return To The Mountain Ridge Of Our Lives: Eight Years After Her Husband Died On Mount Lafayette, A Writer Returns To A Place That Was Like An Extension Of Her Backyard, Laura Waterman

Appalachia

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Looking Up: Climbing Not To Get Away, But To Go Home, Sandy Stott

Appalachia

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Early Highways In Peru: Retracing An Ancient Incan Trade Route, Lisa Densmore

Appalachia

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Leaving The Car At Home: A Connecticut Couple Travels By Rail And Bus To Hike In New Haven, Scot Mackinnon

Appalachia

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The White Mountains, By Train: Lower Speeds, Longer Vacations, Andrew Riely

Appalachia

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Parks Or Parking Lots? Hikers Should Vote With Their Feet, Robert Manning

Appalachia

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The Long Way Home: Hitchhiking, Then And Now, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

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Appalachia Summer/Fall 2009: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Summer/Fall 2009 - Volume LX, Number 2 - issue #228. Our carbon footprint: Old and new pathways to the mountains.

My Soul, She Walks Behind Me, Sanyukta Shiv Kumar

Dartmouth College Master’s Theses

This thesis reimagines the consequences of my great-grandmother’s life. It is an attempt to demystify women’s conditioned roles within private and public spaces and note how, through this conditioning, their identity is repressed to the point of diffidence and eventually, abhorrence towards their own bodies and the physical spaces they occupy. This is portrayed in poetry form through the voice of my great-grandmother as the primary speaker, and is interspersed with the voices of the grandmother, the mother, and the great-granddaughter.

My great-grandmother’s lived experience consisted mostly of her life as a young wife, mother, devotee, and storyteller. She told …

Bobcat, Joyce Victor

Appalachia

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For A Moment, Chris Hoffman

Appalachia

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Entering The Kingdom, Todd Davis

Appalachia

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Sundown On Evolution Creek: High Sierras, Marcyn Del Clements

Appalachia

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Early Spring At The Pond, Ann Taylor

Appalachia

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A Peak Ahead: The Humanity Of Machines, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

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Books And Media

Appalachia

Reviews of: AMC's Best Day Hikes in Connecticut and Rhode Island, by Steve Fagin, Rene Laubach, and Charles W. G. Smith; AMC's Best Day Hikes in New Jersey, 2nd Edition, by Priscilla Estes and Michael McCormick; The 4,000-Footers of the White Mountains, 3rd Edition, by Steven D. Smith and Mike Dickerman; Arctic Traverse: A Thousand-Mile Summer of Trekking the Brooks Range, by Michael Engelhard; Calling Wild Places Home: A Memoir in Essays, by Laura Waterman; Accidents in North American Climbing, by the American Alpine Club

Old Hutmen And Hutwomen Honor Betsy Byrd, W. Kent Olson

Appalachia

Old Hutmen and Hutwomen, the OHA, honor Betsy Byrd, who spent decades as a secretary to hut managers and Appalachian Mountain Club leaders.

Research: Gorillas On Visoke And Pandas In The House: A Conservation With Wildlife Biologist And Conservationist George Schaller, Douglass Teschner

Appalachia

A conversation with wildlife biologist and conservationist George Schaller.

Research: The Little Insects That Could: New Hampshire's Arctic Butterflies, Gabriella Gurney

Appalachia

New Hampshire’s arctic butterflies, the White Mountain fritillaries.

Alpina: A Semiannual Review Of Mountaineering In The Greater Ranges

Appalachia

Among the many updates on mountaineering in the greater ranges in summer and fall 2023: Samson Zebturiah Barner is arrested near Smith Rock in central Oregon for taking several weapons to a climbing event. Three climbers open a new route on Pik Alpinist in Kyrgyzstan. A brief review of the New York Times article on the discovery of Janet Johnson’s camera on Aconcagua 50 years after she and John Cooper died there. On Everest, 3,600 climbers attempted the peak in 2023; eighteen died, 100 years after the biggest Everest mystery of all: the disappearance of Mallory and Irvine. Three Americans …

Accidents: Analysis From The White Mountains Of New Hampshire And Occasionally Elsewhere

Appalachia

Reports of rescues and accidents in New Hampshire’s White Mountains from spring and fall 2023. A long-distance hiker on the Appalachian Trail was knocked unconscious after one her trekking poles snapped crossing a brook on the Rattle River Trail. A woman tries and fails to hike down from Mount Washingtron after taking the Cog Railway up. A hiker falls into a stream, soaking all of her gear, and calls for help below Mount Passaconaway. A couple battles hypothermia after starting up Little Haystack Mountain late on a cold June day. A 21-year-old falls 30 feet off a ledge on Cannon …

Letters

Appalachia

Responses to William Geller’s Winter/Spring 2023 article on bushwhacking in the Mahoosuc range in Maine.

Skyline Sketches: The Last Backpack, Gordon Dubois

Appalachia

Memories of Rufus the trail dog.

Skyline Sketches: The Yellow Lily, Gregory L. Norris

Appalachia

A boy picks a yellow pond lily and regrets it.

Pilgrimage: A Journey To Witness Climate Change In The National Parks, Elise Wallace

Appalachia

A writing teacher considers climate change in New Hampshire, where she lives, and in Acadia National Park and Yellowstone National Park, which she visited in a van. A runner-up in the 2023 Waterman Fund Essay Contest.

Chocorua—Tomorrua: Three Generations Of Women On Mount Chocorua, 1903–1974, Jane English

Appalachia

The author tracks three generations of strong women in her family climbing Mount Chocorua in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.