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Book Festival Season--The Suburban Mountaineer

September 29, 2025

Greetings from Peaklessburg. Last week, Brandon Pullan, Editor of Gripped Magazine, accused the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature of omitting a...

Wanda and K2--The Suburban Mountaineer

August 28, 2025

Greetings from Peaklessburg. August has been quite the month of mountain news. Tourists had new access to the Dolomites and they learned how dangerous it is...

Bonatti's Unclassic--The Suburban Mountaineer

Greetings from Peaklessburg. Are you making the most of your summer? I wish I could say I have. I have had a lot of staff changes at the nonprofit I run that...

Don't Say Where We Are--T.S.M. Newsletter

Greetings from Peaklessburg. The Chinese science fiction author Cixin Liu has been wildly successful with his Three Body Problem trilogy, yet it's the...

Uplifted by Mountain Art--T.S.M. Newsletter

Greetings from Peaklessburg. Several mornings each week I go through the latest posts on climbing websites and social media. There is news of climbs,...

Trotter and Messner--T.S.M. Newsletter

Greetings from Peaklessburg. I am currently reading Walter Bonatti’s memoirs The Mountains of My Life, which are an English translation of select portions of...

Ben Nevis and Being Authentic--T.S.M. Newsletter

Greetings from Peaklessburg. Welcome to the new and improved T.S.M. Newsletter. I spent some time figuring out how to get a banner, which you can see up top,...

The Mountains Between Our Ears--T.S.M. Newsletter

February 20, 2025

Greetings from Peaklessburg. I recently learned that Alpinist Magazine was including book reviews, so I reached out to Derek Franz, the editor-in-chief, and...

Dark Days and Blue Skies--T.S.M. Newsletter

November 10, 2024

Greetings from Peaklessburg. We’re facing some dark days ahead. No, this isn’t political post-election sap of someone lamenting their horse losing. These...

Alpine Linkups, Book List Redux--T.S.M. Newsletter

September 13, 2024

Greetings from Peaklessburg. Linkups have been on my mind lately. Kilian Jornet’s record of summitting all 82 Alps over 4,000 meters by human power over 19...

Good Mountain Writers Commit--T.S.M. Newsletter

Greetings from Peaklessburg! On Monday I finished submitting my pre-read reviews to the Banff Mountain Book Competition. I reviewed two books and 19...

Grateful to Breashears and still dreaming of Mallory and Irvine

Greetings from Peaklessburg. I hadn't thought of David Breashears as impactful on me until now. The mountaineer and filmmaker passed away this month at age...