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Berg Lake Twilight. Photo credit: Jeff P. (2010). NB: ice worms can't live here. Twilight in the alpine. The glacier quivers with the...

Alex Honnold lives in a van. Not a nasty broken-down minivan, a comfortable white Ford Econoline, the kind favored by plumbers and...

Let me begin far away from my usual icy haunts on a night in 2012 when contrarian comedian Bill Burr took on the cult of Steve Jobs.“Nerd...

“The glaciers are coming! The glaciers are coming!” It’s not the most sophisticated pun, but we can perhaps forgive Play Boy; it is,...

“Photography never lies: or rather, it can lie as to the meaning of the thing, being by nature tendentious, never as to its existence.”...

Mountain guide Konrad Kain's application for membership in the ACC. It is an example of the earlier style of membership application used...

The snow that lay over the glacier looked strange to him, as if it were a white grass growing up out of the ice. It bent to his touch and...