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26 September 2022 · reviewed by Heather Dawe
Katie Ives
Imaginary Peaks is a wide-ranging exploration of the ways mountains inspire us to dream. Published in October 2021 by Mountaineers Books in North America, it is the first book of Katie Ives, the celebrated and recently outgoing Editor-in-Chief of Alpinist.
19 May 2022 · reviewed by Tim Woods
Dave Kyu, Ilyssa Kyu
As the years tot up and increasingly fill with the staples of life – work, two young children, that sort of stuff – it’s no longer quite so straightforward to scoot off to one of the long list of places I always assumed I would see. These places are mostly high,…
24 December 2021 · reviewed by Heather Dawe
Kathleen Jamie
‘It was strange to be alone. I walked the quarter-mile uphill to where a wall topped with a tangle of briars marked the border of the village. On this side of the wall there were grasses and wild-flowers, butterflies and dragonflies. There was a copse of trees where the…
23 December 2021 · reviewed by Heather Dawe
Jerry Auld
I have recently read Hooker & Brown . I found it through reading Katie Ives - Alpinist’s Editor-in-Chief - new book Imaginary Peaks . This is Ives’ first book and it’s a wonderful read, one I’d highly recommend. In one section she discusses Jerry Auld’s Hooker & Brown . It…
25 October 2021 · reviewed by Geoff Cox
David Banning
For me the best journeys are the ones that don't come easy. The ones where it takes a bit more of your effort to arrive, but ones that result in me being well entertained and better informed by the end. I feel the same about books. I like it when, as a reader, I'm made to…
26 August 2021 · reviewed by Tim Woods
Claudio Morandini
There are a great many, and many great, books about heroic deeds in the mountains. Tales of near-death escapes and nerve-wrecking rescues, as people battle the odds and the weather to survive. Or books about those remarkable types with the drive and the bravery to achieve the…
13 May 2021 · reviewed by Heather Dawe
Roger Frison-Roche
‘The two men had left Courmayeur that morning at the hour when the dew rises in blue wisps from the stone-tiled roofs. They walked quickly up the road to Entrèves and passed the little mountain village still asleep in its green hollow, The track to the Col de Gèant goes up…