The Alpine Journal 2024

Replete with cutting-edge climbs and undersung figures from mountaineering history, the Alpine Journal is an essential read for all mountain enthusiasts.

As well as our annual summaries of mountaineering activity, book reviews & expedition reports, this year’s edition also features a number of special articles on the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition by Mick Conefrey, Stephen Livingstone and Peter Foster.

Meanwhile in the mountain art section, David Seddon uncovers details of a potentially record-breaking sketch by Howard Somervell, Polly Townsend shares her reflections on painting in Antarctica and Dan Zep pays tribute to the literary legacy of his famous forebear Dorothy Pilley.

We head into the past, where Sherry Macliver examines the history of women alpinists within and without the Alpine Club, while John Harding profiles Britain’s forgotten ski mountaineer Colin William fforde Wyatt.

And looking to the future, Willsim Climber uses his 2022 ascent of Pakistan’s Gulmit Tower as the jumping off point for a short history of para-alpinism.

440 pages