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Alpinist's Editor-in-Chief Recognized for Literary ExcellencePosted on: January 22, 2016
Yesterday afternoon, a few before days from completing our latest issue, Alpinist 53, an email came across my desk stating that the Editor-in-Chief of our magazine, Katie Ives will be recognized for excellence in climbing literature at the 2016 American Alpine Club (AAC) Annual Benefit Dinner on February 27. It stated: "Katie Ives has brought thoughtful analysis, brilliant writing and finesse to climbing literature since joining the Alpinist team in 2004." advertisement
The honor, previously called the American Alpine Club Literary Award, was renamed in recent years to the H. Adams Carter Literary Award in memory of a professor at Milton Academy, in Milton Mass., who died on April 1, 1995. For four decades, Carter was editor of the American Alpine Journal. "He made it what it is today," AAC CEO Phil Powers said over the phone. "I would get these letters from him typed out saying 'I hear you were in Pakistan, tell me your story.' Getting those letters in the mail was really special. That was back in the days of typewriters. At the time, getting in a magazine or the American Alpine Journal was the only way to get recognized as a climber. We renamed it for him two to three years ago " "I think where Katie expresses herself so eloquently goes beyond her editorials and articles to include her role as an editor," Powers said. Previous recipients include: Jon Krakauer: 1986 Greg Child: 1987 H. Adams Carter: 1988 Ed Webster: 1990 David S. Roberts: 1992 Jeff Long: 1993 Elizabeth Hawley: 1994 Allen Steck: 1995 Steve Roper: 1995 Jonathan Waterman: 1996 Broughton Coburn: 1997 Michael Kennedy: 1998 Audrey Salkeld: 1999 Rick Ridgeway: 2002 Tami Knight: 2003 Galen Rowell: 2003 Brad Washburn: 2003 Mark Jenkins: 2004 John Sherman: 2005 John Long: 2006 Alison Osius: 2007 John Harlin, III: 2008 Maria Coffey: 2009 Doug Robinson: 2010 Royal Robbins: 2011 Bernadette McDonald: 2012 Duane Raleigh: 2013 Freddie Wilkinson: 2014 Jeff Lowe: 2015 Sources: American Alpine Club Executive Director Phil Powers, americanalpineclub.org
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Katie Ives on the summit of The Spearhead (12,575'), in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, after climbing its North Ridge (5.6, 7 pitches, Schobinger-Soby, 1958). July 2010.
[Photo] Chris Weidner 
Well deserved.
Writing is difficult, climbing can be also at times,
combing the two gracefully, as Katie has and continues to do, is one slippery glacier polished mantle.