Katie Ives

Contributor

Boulder, Colorado, USA

A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Banff Mountain and Wilderness Writing Program, Katie Ives has written for many publications, including The New York Times, Outside, Atlas Obscura, LitHub, Adventure Journal, Mountain Gazette and The Rumpus, as well as several anthologies. She was an editor at Alpinist for nearly eighteen years, and the editor-in-chief of the magazine for more than a decade. In 2016, she received the H. Adams Carter Literary Award from the American Alpine Club. And in 2022, her first book, Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams (Mountaineers Books, 2021) received a Special Jury Mention at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Articles, essays, and other writing on Panorama by Katie Ives can be accessed using the links below.

A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Banff Mountain and Wilderness Writing Program, Katie Ives has written for many publications, including...

Imaginary Peaks

Maps are instruments of knowledge, science, and faith. One trusts the ability of the mapmakers and their associates to measure the terrain accurately, and then...

The Autumn Light that Still Sears through You, Long after It is Gone

Soon after he learned he was dying, my father told me he loved autumn light, so I kept sending photos: yellow aspens glowing in dark...

Abroad in the Night

I should be terrified of bears. More than fifteen years ago, in the Teton Range of Wyoming, a friend and I were hiking down a...

My Mother's Mountain

Because there are no mountains, I’d say. This was my answer whenever my mother asked why I couldn’t move back to my childhood home in...